{"id":53100,"date":"2016-04-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-website.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/engineers-of-the-human-soul-soviet-socialist-realist-painting-1930-1970\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:23:33","slug":"engineers-of-the-human-soul-soviet-socialist-realist-painting-1930-1970","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/engineers-of-the-human-soul-soviet-socialist-realist-painting-1930-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Socialist Realist Painting 1930-1970"},"content":{"rendered":"

January \u2013 April 1992<\/p>\n

It was at the first All Union Congress of Writers, held in Moscow in 1934, that Socialist Realism was officially formulated. Its origins were based in 19th\u00a0century paintings critical of Tsarist society; by the 1930s however, Socialist Realism was a cog in the machinations of the Communist Party, attempting to portray the Soviet Union as free of suffering. Art was to be a servant to the needs of the party, the artist configured as, in Stalin\u2019s words, \u2018an engineer of the human soul\u2019.<\/p>\n

Engineers of the Human Soul<\/em>\u00a0comprises 60 paintings, charting the development of Social Realism across a span of 40\u00a0years, moving from primitivism, to Stalinist romanticism, and culminating in the Severe Style of the late 50s\u00a0and early 60s. The work, which was drawn from private collections in Britain and artists\u2019 studios in the Soviet Union, featured industrial, agricultural, and military subjects, as well as portraits and landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","event_type":[230],"audience":[],"class_list":["post-53100","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event_type-archive","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEngineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Socialist Realist Painting 1930-1970 - Modern Art Oxford<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Socialist Realist Painting 1930-1970 - Modern Art Oxford\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January \u2013 April 1992 It was at the first All Union Congress of Writers, held in Moscow in 1934, that Socialist Realism was officially formulated. 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