The stamp on this FDC is one of a set of four stamps on Glass
Blowing in Denmark. Four different stages of the glass production at
Holmegaard Glassworks. Design by Helle Jessen, and engraved by Cz.
Slania.
Although the Danish
Socialist Realism was never dictated by the government, there is no doubt
that some of the Danish Socialist Realist artists were communists, and
certainly approved the Soviet ideology in all its facets -- which is easy to do
when one is not forced to, but has the artistic freedom of expression.
This is probably why the Socialist Realism in arts was to some degree
maintained up to the 1970s by artists like Folmer Bendtsen (1907-1993, not
represented on stamps) and his contemporaries.
The most blatant philatelic example I can think of in this style is in
the set of stamps issued in 1976, showing glass blowers in various stages of
their work, and idealizing the so-called society of workers and
peasants.
With the disintegration of the Communist Bloc in the late
1980s, Socialist Realism fell out of favour and instead began to be used
ironically in some works as a means of attacking the old Communist
system.
Thank you Maria.
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