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Zeng’s art is informed by socialist realism, a style he encountered growing up in Maoist China.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2023

The school of socialist realism that dominated art in the Soviet Union glorified peasants and industrial workers, depicting heroic, muscular steelworkers and smiling farmers wielding agricultural implements.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Didactic as it is, “One Way or Another” can be taken for socialist realism, but if so, it is a highly original and even critical variant.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

More intriguing is that the artist didn’t quite abandon socialist realism, the official style she was taught at Beijing’s Central Academy of the Arts.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

Stalin’s insistence on socialist realism made polemic both aesthetically and morally suspect.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2019