Gellert (Gellert) Hugo (Hugo) (b. 3/5/1892, Budapest), an American graphic artist and painter. A native of Hungary, since 1906 lives in the United States, he studied at the New York School of Applied Arts. Since 1916 due to the creativity of the labor movement and the progressive press. Since 1929, member John Reed Club. G. - by graphic portraits of Lenin (1924), J. Reed (1920), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1925), illustrations for the "capital" of Karl Marx (60 lithographs, 1936), paintings of workers' clubs ( part - together with A. Refrezhe) and the building trade unions of seafarers (1945-47) in New York, also known as a designer working festivals and rallies. For creativity G., experienced the influence of Mexican prints, characterized by the plasticity of manners akin poster sharpness of images and symbolism.

Karl Marx's 'Capital' in Lithographs (1934)

Words, words, words ...
I such words can in an hour at a penny dimes nastrugat. I would have easily earned in the social insurance texts in all cases.
So for the Soviet press wrote. And that's really thinking and what (or who) for the article in Ligazete stands - God only knows.
Some forum participants tsitirut different texts about socialist realism - read them carefully and try to determine the percentage of truth. Or do you all unreservedly believe in Soviet Russia and the sources of information? I totally do not believe even in the West - see
www.inosmi.ru and see for yourself.
Since I sometimes write articles, you can call them zhurnalyugami. I know the kitchen and saw the tests that go straight from the pen of a journalist. Low level of verification of the facts, solid illiteracy, editorial errors occur at every step. Another ochepyatki pay a small contribution. I read newspapers critical eye.
Our Socialist Realism steeper American. Gellert made a comic, as they have taken. Bad done, but looks like not to Socialist Realism, and the Sots Art. Especially mouse. And if you replace the Soviet flag amer? something I was too often to change the flags ...

Domestic media, "believe"?

Karl Marx's 'Capital' in Lithographs (1934)

I will not claim to be experts, but I will say:
Why confuse the "socialist realism" with "social realism", even despite the fact that the root of the word - one, and the reduction - the same.

    I do not like Korzheva. Some nekrofilizm. The latest works have seen? It's just awful! : eek:

And this?
traces of war 1963-1965 g.
Oil on canvas. 200x150, RM.
Or is it?
WIRES. 1967
co 200x150, RM

Tjutchev:

From "lifted ..." I'm delighted.
As recent works - we all get older. And artists, too, grow old, lose dinaniku and feelings. Or acquire new ones. "Adam and Eve" to me - quite on the level. But it was not meant to "lifted ..."
Feast - looks as if written 200-300 years ago. Something I saw there in the mists of time. But why not look? And there, the way time judge.

PS That's it. Previous message completely out of place. In my proletarian taste, this is a Korzheva get much stronger. Simple, but takes over the soul. tears welling, I want to remember the fallen ...

Socialist realism is also present invective propaganda of capitalism and social inequalities. Social realism, then just one of the branches of socialist realism.


Prophets Boris. Title page of the book "Mayakovsky about America." 1951