Anyone know the name of Soviet era art which commonly depicts family, worker, etc??

[bjack...@yahoo.com]

While traveling through Russia, I noticed endless statues and paintings
from the Soviet era which had a consistent style and theme: always
depicting an entire family, or father/son alone, mother/daughter alone,
factory worker themes, farming/harvest themes, etc. The faces of the
statue figures are very serious, looking towards the heavens, etc. I
also noticed that the statues always were slightly "blocky"... what I
mean is that the edges were somewhat "unfinished"/square, not refined
like a Michelangelo (as one example).

My question is, what is the name of this type of Soviet art?

Thanks for any help.

[BluntForceTraumaT]

It's called Burger King art.

If you watch Burger King commercials, you see the same sort of Aryan
idealism, it's just all the people are blacks.

It's not just Burger King though. Look at ads for just about any product or
service. They will always have "happy" pictures that show some combination
of smiling blacks, white, asians, men, women, ...and sometimes even seniors
although younger people are generally preferred...unless the product is
something like adult diapers, etc.

The pharmas are masters of the perfect demographic combo....and of course
also masters of manipulated data.

Crestor commercials are now my favorite for bullshit content. Used to be
Claritin but Crestor has clearly fittted more crap into their 30 second
spots.

<bjack...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj]

bjack...@yahoo.com wrote:

It's a type of maskirovka for (documentary) realism.

[CB]

<bjack...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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It's often lumped under "Socialist Realism"; I don't know whether there is a
specific sub-genre.
CB

[dermo...@gmail.com]

It is known as Social Realism. It replaced the wonderful and crazy art
forms that the revolution created and represented a repressed era. That
said their is some brilliant stuff... All hyper properganda, before
the word got a really bad name.

[dermo...@gmail.com]

It is known as Social Realism. It replaced the wonderful and crazy art
forms that the revolution created and represented a repressed era. That
said their is some brilliant stuff... All hyper properganda, before
the word got a really bad name.

[CB]

<dermo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It is known as Social Realism. It replaced the wonderful and crazy art
> forms that the revolution created and represented a repressed era. That
> said their is some brilliant stuff... All hyper properganda, before
> the word got a really bad name.
>
>

No, Social Realism is a quite different category of art; for those
interested in the differences between Socialist, Social, and Heroic Realism,
a good place to start is (as ever) http://wikipedia.org
CB