Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

This presentation will focus on visual arts communication in the 1950s, in Russia and China. Art is a medium of expression where the individual and a culture come together. Chinese and Russian art, of this period, are examples of overt involvement of a government in the direction of the content of art. This study will emphasize how an individual artist produces her/his artwork when culture becomes a tool of the government, and then politics impacted the art as an expression of the time; how the art was influenced each other between Soviet and China, under the social realism. The influence of art style reflects the historical and political significance of the recording details of the art training, people’s lives styles, and explanations about the significance of each piece of art that was produced during those time period.