Monday, June 14, 2010

North Korean Art

Excellent collection of North Korean art here.











And here's one I took in Pyongyang:

3 comments:

L said...

Ha, those are great. Socialist realism is hilarious, when it is not being grisly, which is quite rare, really.

http://criterioncollection.blogspot.com/2008/09/87-alexander-nevsky.html

And, yeah, Louis.

angrysoba said...

And one cannot but love this one?

L said...

My (sort of obvious) favourite up till now had been this:

http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism/peoples-love.jpg

I like the ambient fear.

But, oh my, I never had imagined, stupidly, and prejudicially, of course, that it DPK hate-art would wend in that Asian print-style - I had imagined it would be second-hand Soviet (stupidly, of course).

That is weirdly revelatory.