As the state was the artists' sole patron, through the Plastic Fund, established artists began to adopt socialist realist themes in their work. Among them were Camil Ressu ("Semnarea apelului pentru pace" — "The Signing of the Peace Appeal"), Alexandru Ciucurencu ("1 Mai" — "May 1", "Ana Ipătescu") and Corneliu Baba ("Oţelari" — "Steel-workers"). Other socialist-realist painters, with representative works, included:  Theodor Harşia ("Şantierul de la Bicaz" — "The Bicaz Construction Site"), Gavril Miklossy ("Griviţa, 1933"; "Lupeni, 1929"), Spiru Chintilă ("Femei înarmate în gărzile patriotice" — Women Armed in the Patriotic Guards"), Brăduţ Covaliu ("Greva de la Lupeni" — "The Lupeni Strike"), "Insurecţia armată din 23 August 1944" — "The Armed Insurrection of 23 August 1944"), Constantin Piliuţă ("Revoluţonari încarceraţi" — "Incarcerated Revolutionaries"), Gheorghe Iacob ("Propagandist de partid la sat" — "Party Propagandist in the Village"), Coriolan Hora ("Sudorii" — "The Welders", "Recoltarea porumbului" — "The Corn Harvest"), Ion Biţan ("Recolta" — "The Harvest", "Victoria" — "The Victory"), Gheorghe Şaru ("Sudoriţă" — "The Female Welder"), Ştefan Szöny ("Tipografie clandestină" — "Clandestine Typography", "Moartea partizanului" — "The Death of the Partisan"), Iulia Hălăucescu ("Centrala hidroelectrică V.I. Lenin" — "The V.I. Lenin Hydroelectric Plant"). Emil Mereanu executed two notable sculptures in the style: a bust of Andrei Zhdanov for the Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy and a work called "Bucurie" ("Joy") in Floreasca Park, Bucharest.