The 549 Artworks created around 1950 and containing the word aleksandr deyneka, socialist realism, buildings, 1950

In the late 1950s Paul Delvaux produced a number of night scenes in which trains are observed by a little girl seen from behind. These compositions contain nothing overtly surrealistic, yet the clarity of moonlit detail is hallucinatory in effect. Trains had always been a subject of special interest...

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This fantasy landscape of vegetation and architectural ruins conveys the impression of a stage set, on which Boucher has strategically placed a number of lyrical figures from the bucolic repertoire: fishermen, shepherds and peasant women. As was common in this genre, the artificial impression of the...

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In the 1950s, images of fuming smokestacks, high-rise buildings, and broad highways were signs of progress. Fu’s depiction of Gottwaldov (present-day Zlìn, Czech Republic), celebrates these promises of socialist prosperity. Fu’s inscription reads, in part, “When entering the city, we saw tall buildi...

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