"Socialist realism" - is the era of style in art or life and thinking?

[Ухтомский]

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.