Sentences with phrase «brand of social realism»

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.

Two of Mr. Segal's most striking works, «Holocaust,» at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor and «Gay Liberation,» at Stanford University, are prime examples of the unique brand of social realism that made him one of the most quietly influential artists of his time.

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.

In New York, he studied with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in the 1940s, and became attuned to Marsh's gritty brand of social realism, honed during the Depression.

Lush Life is an Xray of the street in the age of no broken windows and «quality of life» squads, from a writer whose «tough, gritty brand of social realism... reads like a movie in prose» (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

In Yann Demange's debut feature» 71, this brand of social realism is served in the style of a tense war - time thriller.