Sentences with phrase «as social realism»

Today, novels that would once have been called science fiction can be read as social realism.

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.

As far as social realism films go, this one simply must be seen.

Not exact matches

Thus sin appears in a Reinhold Niebuhr boomlet as the note of Christian realism needed in social ethics; ignorance receives attention through «the epistemological privilege of the poor» or an action hermeneutics; death is addressed in the issue of nuclear winter.

It is because of their utter realism as they spoke within the conditions of a social and political community — or to adopt a current term, a responsible society — that next to the teachings of Jesus we find in them our firmest basis of social ethics.

It is now possible to understand why Hartshorne designates his ontology and cosmology as «societal realism,» «social organicism,» or «social process.»

Possibly no other social ethicist was as committed to realism as Reinhold Niebuhr.

It is social realism as seen by Hieronymus Bosch, and if you are looking for a vision of absolute evil, the absolute repudiation of humanity, there are a couple of scenes here that will serve your purpose well.

Marco Bellocchio's «Vincere» has its admirers, particularly in the European critical community, as does Andrea Arnold's «Fish Tank» — though the former's biographic sweep and the latter's grim British social realism may strike the jurors as a little too familiar.

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

Director Antonio Pietrangeli combines earthy humor with hard - hitting, slice - of - life social realism, while Mastroianni, in a memorable supporting role, displays his trademark charismatic insouciance as a smooth - talking car salesman.

Our reaction: «A touch schmaltzy in places and the wraparound story distracts, but, for the main part, this is stunning social - realism from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki as a 12 - year - old boy and his one - year - old charge battle to survive on the streets.

Regardless of how effective the film was in removing barriers toward the horror via its commitment to realism, Scrapbook would nonetheless be received as an artifice by viewers due to the formal and social arrangements, such as credit sequences and watching the film on a tape which had either been bought or rented.

An instant audience success was Dress as a Maid, beginning as an old socialist realism film, turning to into a gender - oriented flick of transsexual identity, and ending as a love story amid a convulsive social landscape.

This year's best screenplay award is a tie, with Nader Saeivar winning for her work on Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces, in which the director and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the Iranian countryside in search of a distressed teenaged girl; and Alice Rohrwacher, for Happy as Lazzaro, the tale of a simpleton that blends magic realism and social drama.

I Am Not A Witch is a harrowing story, yet the magical realism via cinematography is allegorically impressionistic while the dooming consequences of Shula (Margaret Mulubwa) are devastating as it reflects a country caught in a social flux.

The composition, shot selection and the dialogue characterise friendship as the agency for fun, exploration and adventure in a child's life, and become stylistic counterpoints to the notion that social realism in cinema must be bleak and dour to be meaningful.

So self - serious that it became an unwitting parody of the beloved first season, the return of «True Detective» struck an uncomfortable compromise between wild, fantastical elements (a corpse with its eyes burned out, an assailant in a bird's head mask) and social realism (online porn, PTSD, substance abuse)-- and in the process exposed Nic Pizzolatto's writing as a bunch of risible blather masquerading as poetry.

Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne have their own way with social realism and commentary, one that that doesn't have Loach's humor but is just as good at capturing the textures and rhythms of lives and often better as sketching the anxieties and conflicts within communities.

The provincial city in Weekend is never named, but the film was shot in Nottingham, in many of the same locations as Karel Reisz's landmark of kitchen - sink realism Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which also spans a weekend and whose characters are likewise bristling against the social climate of their time; Glen is in some ways a modern, gay version of Albert Finney's original angry young man.

But because Atta crafts them so vividly and writes social realism so well, and because she beautifully plumbs emotional and psychological as well as physical and situational details so well, I felt connected to Deola.

The Great Depression defined the thirties as American Art entered the dark ages with social realism and genre painting leading the way.

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.

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.

To simplify and clarify the study of art, historians have created precise categories such as «social realism», «Surrealism» and «abstract expressionism», at the expense of many artists like Eilshemius,

As Surrealism was gradually introduced to these artists, aspects of horror and fantasy were integrated into Social Realism creating a hybrid style called Social Surrealism.

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.

In an interview with the Observer the same year, Caulfield said his interest in interiors developed in art school as a reaction against social realism.

But in the hands of curator Boris Groys the proposition turns ambiguous... «Specters,» as conceived by Groys, explores Russian «post-conceptual realism,» an artistic practice in which artists shift attention from isolated art objects and performances to their social and political context.

And as Communist ideology swept through Southeast Asia in the mid-20th century, Nguyen Duc Nung combined the working - class heroes of Social Realism with lacquer techniques to portray a shining new future.

Both take epochal social change as subject, and both hide it behind a surface so ordinary one could mistake it for the realism of art's past.

At the same time, knowing that African American artists had for years been largely expected to make works of social realism, and the ambition to make abstract works every bit as important as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris marked a equally revolutionary statement of artistic freedom, the abstractions of Bowling, Gilliam, Thomas and Ed Clark — who created shaped canvases, sweeping paint across them with push - brooms — are no less arresting.

And here, too, I could only blame myself for missing the obvious, even as together the work finds a space between social realism and Surrealism.

As a teenager, Gechtoff was heavily influenced by Ben Shahn's style of social realism [5], an international political and social movement that drew attention to the struggles of the working class and the poor.

A painter of murals during the 1930s, Guston's brand of social realism was heavily influenced by the compositions of Renaissance masters as well as Cubism's treatment of space.

It seemed that if one wanted to get away from such things as the American scene or social realism and perhaps cubism, this offered a possibility of a way out, and the hope that given a subject matter that was different, perhaps some new approach to painting... might also develop.»

Sharrer's colorful canvases, with their unique blending of Social Realism and Surrealism, established the artist early in her career as a new American voice.

One of the things I found out was that the CIA used them as a propaganda tool — they weren't accepted in the United States, but then that same time the CIA was showing them to eastern Europeans saying: «Look, you have to do social realism, but this is what you could really do, you could be free.»

A leading documentary photographer who was active in the New York Photo League in the 1930s, Siskind moved beyond the social realism of his early work as he increasingly came to view photography as a visual language of signs, metaphors, and symbols — the equivalent of poetry and music.

Painting was seen as the lowest art form, the most commercial, not really art at all and Social Realism was the most discredited style, a dead language.

By the 1930s, Regionalism, along with its ethical cousin Social Realism formed part of a broad movement known as American Scene Painting, which struck a popular chord with many people, not least because it offered a positive antidote to the gloom of The Great Depression which was ravaging the country.

The gallery handles artwork from early 20th - century movements including American Modernism, African American Art, Social Realism, Regionalism, Magic Realism, and Precisionism by such artists as Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Bluemner, Paul Cadmus, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, PaJaMa, Fairfield Porter, Ben Shahn, and others.

Some works are purely visionary and abstract while others — such as in photography — capture the grim social realism of local figures or street scenes.

Alex Katz: New York provides a fascinating overview of Katz's distinctive body of work, which has been described by the distinguished academic Donald Kuspit as «a new kind of American social realism».

Modern and contemporary styles represented in the collection include precisionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop and op art, Fluxus, photo realism, and minimalism, as well as works that explore social and political issues.

At the same time, the American scene was equally hostile to us because if, as we thought, to make an authentic gesture without any a priori idea of how it would turn out, was the real gambit, then everything — «hard - edge» abstraction with its ideology, Social Realism with its ideology, regionalism with its ideology, landscape painting with its sentimentality, portrait painting with its class background, anything you could imagine — was equally threatened by our premise.

John Ahearn is known for his plaster casts of residents of New York's South Bronx, a body of work that, as one critic has written, «gave Social Realism a new credibility during the 1980s.»

Specific painting movements included the Ashcan School (c.1900 - 1915); Precisionism (1920s) which celebrated the new American industrial landscape; the more socially aware urban style of Social Realism (1930s); American Scene Painting (c.1925 - 45) which embraced the work of Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield, as well as midwestern Regionalism (1930s) championed by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry.

While Partisan offers global insights, the exhibition is anchored by the inclusion of politically - oriented works by American artists such Philip Evergood, who is known for practicing a brand of Social Realism in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as prolific artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, of whom works will be on view from the 1970s and 1980s.

Martin's art is rooted in a mixture of figurative realism, muralism and aerosol art, he derives inspiration from the rich heritage of artists working as social critics and documentarians.