the-paintrist:art-mirrors-art:Wojciech Weiss - Nude before a mirror (1922)Wojciech Weiss (4 May 1875
the-paintrist:art-mirrors-art:Wojciech Weiss - Nude before a mirror (1922)Wojciech Weiss (4 May 1875 – 7 December 1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement.Socialist realism in Poland (Polish: socrealizm) was a social, political, and esthetic doctrine enforced by the pro-Soviet communist government in the process of Stalinization of the postwar People’s Republic of Poland. The official policy was introduced in 1949 by a decree of the Polish United Workers’ Party minister (later, Minister of Culture and Art) Włodzimierz Sokorski. As in all Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc countries, Socialist realism became the main instrument of political control in the building of totalitarianism in Poland. However, the trend has never become truly dominant. Following Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, and the subsequent destalinization of all People’s Republics, Polish artists, writers and architects started abandoning it around 1955. Destalinization process peaked during the Polish October. -- source link