Sentences with phrase «when social realism»

Further assessing Avery's place in American art history, Patterson Sims wrote in an essay for the Whitney Museum of American Art: «Early in Avery's career, when Social Realism and American Scene painting were the prevailing artistic styles, the semi-abstract tendencies in his work were viewed by many as too radical.

When Social Realism and the American Scene were considered the important thing, he took an aesthetic stand as opposed to regional subject matter... His attitude helped reinforce me in my chosen direction.

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It's a documented fact that more than 30 % of men and women have used online dating sites to find companionship - that's the realism of our social structure in today's modern world and not the false portrayal of destiny and fate that inevitably brings people together when Hollywood is concerned.

When contrasted with the stunning social realism and accessible philosophy of Blue is the Warmest Colour, which also covered young sexuality, Nymphomaniac is comparatively a juvenile afterthought.

His career began in the 1930s, when he used the style of social realism to convey both the struggles and everyday lives of black people, shaped not only by racism but also by the Great Depression.

Shaw's dedication to abstraction coincided with the ascendancy of social realism in the United States, when American artists working in abstract forms were sometimes disregarded as slavish imitators of European painting.

While other students were presenting portraits of family and friends, when he showed his drawings of his family, they were seen as social realism because they were images of black people.

In the show we see a priceless earlier work by Lewis, when he seemed to still be in his Social Realism stage, just before painting his most famous representational work: The Yellow Hat.

When World War II ended, Regionalism and Social Realism lost status in the art world.

When Zet was an art student, his training, consisting mainly of classicism and social realism, would have hardly had early modernism taken into account, let alone the conceptual and performative breakthroughs of such figures as Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys.