In my opinion, the farther away, there are fewer will be referred to the term - "socialist realism".

Why?

Critics are already currently little use this vague term , preferring other definitions, and the audience is so used . stop : now asks many - " sotsart ? and social realism does not sotsart ?"
Socialist Realism called it the official art of the Soviet period , and there was plenty of everything: " austere style " and the Leningrad band " Eleven " ( and indeed, the "left wing " so to speak , of the Leningrad school ), and artists who now pricheslyayut to nonconformists, but that the official and sometimes exhibited .

Totally agree with Cyril .

In addition, there is some typological confusion . Take, for example , " Bread" Yablonska - the clearest example of what is called " socialist realism ". At the same time if you look at some sketches for this painting - those in which the artist depicted a grain shovel, pieces of cloth , and much more "socially unaccented " - stylistically it ? If the same thing and just write , say, Perov, as it is called?

Therefore, it seems to me that " socialist realism " - a term of art from the point of view is not entirely correct .

The term is really vague, but the content is something he is quite specific. I'll bet 10 cents that the term will :D> Just often confused - and substantially replace chronological and stylistic.

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Why? The style of change, and method - no. And if the definition of art does not follow a chronological and informative - all quite correct. For example, if you take to Mr. industrial landscape. What to include? If everything is as is - for realism, and if everything is sublimely perfect, heroic working days, etc. - The Socialist Realism. Is not it so?

Somewhere - maybe.

But here is my colleagues around once already and do not use this term.

I agree with artcol, this term is not going anywhere.
I think that over time, diminish the sharpness when the socio-ideological confrontation, he will be perceived without the negative connotation

Try to include industrial and landscape . :)>

And how can Makar in the industrial landscape picture , for example, " the heroism of working days "?
Smoke from factory pipes red paint ? Some " heroic" for draw bolts metellicheskih stroyascheygosya structures of mill ?
 :D>

Well, actually - at all would like an abundance , qualitative social realism - a rare commodity. At least in our area. By definition, it is always informative - and with that the artists of the problem. Therefore, without a struggle against formalism has not done .

This term will be only in the literary history of the Soviet period: 1st All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, Maxim Gorky's speech there, and so on.