Soros Realism is a term coined by Miško Šuvaković

Miško Šuvakovic

Prof. Dr. Miško Šuvaković is a contemporary aestheticist, art theorist and conceptual artist born in 1954 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He teaches theory of art and theory of culture in Interdisciplinary Postgraduates Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade....

 in "Ideologija izložbe: o ideologijama Manifeste" (2002) describing a type of post-socialist art

Post-socialist art

Post-socialist art is a term used in analysis of art arriving from post-socialist countries taken as different in their nature from Western, Postmodern art.Crucial for such art is that:...

 financed by American Businessman of Hungarian origin George Soros

George Soros

George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...

, who has financed number of Soros centers for contemporary art the Eastern Europe.

Although it was not originally used pejoratively by Šuvaković, because of its reverberation of the very name of Socialistic Realism

Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism...

, a style of socialist propaganda in painting and sculpture, it has staid an irony of a renewed political funding of art, that censors by financing not forbidding.