After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the new government took control of Russian art, nationalizing art collections and laying down the principles that were t

The development of Soviet realist painting over fifty years through a selection of works from Russia's leading museums. Socialist Realism was and remains an exc

Paintings from Russia, the Ukraine, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Kirgizia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldova selected in the USSR by Matthew Cullerne Bown for

Socialist Realism appeared in order to proceed towards what was then conceived as a bright new future - the Communist paradise on earth.

Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created