... changed his creative style, which was basically that of the official Socialist Realism, and reverted to the modernist style he acquired from professors of Tbilisi Academy and other Georgian artists, such ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... this “Soviet Piero” that was embraced and taken as a sample by young artists of the 70s. Partly because of this their art preserved such canonical aspects of socialist realism as idealization and tendentiousness. ...