Sentences with phrase «mexican social realist»

Tony Orrico's three month solo exhibition takes place in a remarkable building that was designed by the Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in the 1960s.

Guccione worked with Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro - Siqueiros on Post Office murals for the federal Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.

Works by David Siqueiros, a political, radical - minded Mexican social realist painter, and an adversary of Rivera, who was best known for his large fresco murals, are also included in the collection.

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His father was the second - generation Mexican muralist Mario Orozco Rivera, who worked for the great social realist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros.

The murals of the Mexican social - realists, the abstract geometric paintings of Piet Mondrian, and the cut outs of Matisse are some of the influences that shape his work.

Alston's work was influenced by the social realist art of the 1930s, the politically - charged work of the Mexican Muralists, and by jazz and nightclub culture.

In a manner both visually gripping and psychologically strange, Pittman's hallucinatory works reference myriad aesthetic styles, from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals to Mexican «retablos.»

Inspiration for the Social Realists came from the Ashcan School (many of them had studied with Ashcan artist John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York) and from the Mexican murals pioneered by Gerardo Murillo (1875 - 1964).

[1] In addition to work showing a personal version of precisionism, he produced paintings, drawings, and prints in the social realist, Mexican muralist, and surrealist styles as well as still lifes, portraits, and landscapes that defy easy classification.