Description

The drawing Sitting Girl was executed in pencil by unknown Odessa Artist -representative of Socialist Realism in the middle of the 20^th century. Socialist Realism Art was prevailing in the Soviet Union from 1932 to the mid-1980. Socialist Realism follows the great tradition of 19^th century Russian realism in that it purports to be a faithful and objective mirror of life. Socialist Realism thus looks back to Romanticism in that it encourages a certain heightening and idealizing of heroes and events to shape the consciousness of the masses.