 For next forty years, the institution was under the pressure of political doctrine promoting so called socialist realism in arts, as well as suffering the political purges affecting badly the whole society.In spite of troubled historical development and atmosphere of repression, at AFAD there were few spheres of so-called “positive deviation”.The resistance to the orthodoxy of socialist realism was made possible thanks to the intellectual and artistic background of some of the professors and their personal approach to their students.