Sentences with phrase «social realist ben»

Following his freshman year, De Staebler attended summer session at Black Mountain College in Black Mountain N.C., where he studied with the social realist Ben Shahn.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

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She came under the sway of the social realist photography of Walker Evans and Ben Shahn and, as stated, joined them as a member of the WPA programs of the 1930s.

Designers like Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde and Russel Wright experimented with new materials, including aluminum, bakelite, cork and linoleum while painters such as Burgoyne Diller, Charles Biederman and Werner Drewes redefined an American aesthetic that challenged the predominant representational imagery of the social realists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton and Raphael Soyer.

• SOCIAL REALISTS (1930 - 45) Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969) Noted for social realist frescoes, gouache panel paintings, illustraSOCIAL REALISTS (1930 - 45) Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969) Noted for social realist frescoes, gouache panel paintings, illustrasocial realist frescoes, gouache panel paintings, illustrations.

About the artwork shown above Ben Shahn became noted as a social realist during the Depression, painting the realities of poverty, labor strikes and urban...

Photographs by Ben Shahn and Arthur Rothstein are critical to a grouping of Depression - era social realist works.

Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969) American social realist painter, famous for frescoes, gouaches, lithographs.

North of the border in the United States, the Lithuanian - born social realist painter Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969) was also a successful fresco painter, with a number of public arts projects to his name.

Ben Wilson's career as a painter parallels that of many others in his generation who began their creative investigations in the social realist idiom of 1930s America, ultimately evolving their own responses to Modernist abstraction in the post-war period.