Sale of the century socialist realism wins big on the global art market.

C: International Contemporary Art | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

Once a standard-bearer of Soviet communism's penchant for absurdity, socialist realism now lives a more ordinary existence as just another item for sale on the art market.

Since about 1992, Western-style equality has been unleashed on Russia: everyone is equal in proportion to the amount of money they can earn. So just as in communism, and as George Orwell said, everyone is equal but some are more equal than others.

This is especially true of socialist realist painting. No longer propped up by the state as the official art of the Soviet Union, the style ...

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