Sentences with phrase «rejecting social realism»

Rejecting social realism and regionalism of the 1930s, this generation of artists embraced abstract surrealism - a nonobjective language with limitless possibilities.

Initially influenced by surrealism and cubism, abstract expressionists rejected the social realism, regionalism, and geometric abstraction so popular with American painters of the 1930s.

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A notable characteristic of modernism is self - consciousness and irony concerning literary and social traditions, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. [4] Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism [5][6][7] and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.

The paintings he designed — influenced by the work of Mexican muralists, jazz music, and the prevailing social realism of the 1930s — were approved by the Federal Art Project but rejected by the hospital's administration for what they saw as an excess of subject matter relating to African Americans.