ARTH 2340 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 Asian Art
23 Oct 2020
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Socialist realism in china & contemporary chinese art. 1932-34: emergence of socialist realism in the soviet union. 1949: founding off the prc; cafa under communist party direction. Mid 1950"s: beginning of socialist realism in china. 1976: death of mao; 2nd emergence of realism. *1950"s-60"s: the chinese nationalization of oil painting: the revolutionary narrative. Engels: in 1859 engels predicted that socialist literature would represent a perfected artistic form. He believed that realism implies, besides truth of detail, the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances". Art is a depiction that presupposes historical development and class struggle so as to lay claim to a place in the realm of realism". Realism (sometimes called naturalism), in the arts, the. Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of developed in the soviet union and was the official style in that contemporary life.
