The Science Museum show provides select examples spanning the idealistic post-Revolutionary years from 1917 to the advent of
Socialist Realism in the «30s and also offers a striking coda: Sputnik -
era propaganda posters produced by Soviet artists at the dawn of the Space Race.
Her stylized sinewy male bodies are decidedly reminiscent of the
Socialist Realism used in Soviet -
era art, particularly in propaganda used by the Russian government to invoke nationalistic pride and to glorify and propagate the ideologies of authoritarian leaders.