Not exact matches
After Niebuhr's generation had passed, liberationists judged that the
social gospel and Niebuhr's Christian
realism were too middle class, white, male -
dominated, nationalistic and socially privileged to be agents of liberation.
In Germany, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and others politicized their paintings, foreshadowing the coming of World War II, while in America, modernism is seen in the form of American Scene painting and the
social realism and regionalism movements that contained both political and
social commentary
dominated the art world.
While Bearden's early work consisted of figural paintings inspired by the
social realism that
dominated the 1930s, a trip to Paris in 1950 inspired him to move closer to abstraction.
This is not to imply that Perry has brought together works of
Social Realism; rather he has exposed a side of the collection — and British art —
dominated not by big names but by «working» artists (e.g. David Hepher, Brian Robb, Margret Lovell).
Ditto his break with
social realism, which
dominated photography at the time.
American painting in general, however, continued to be
dominated by the realists — the Ashcan School and its successors, American Scene painting and
Social Realism — until some 30 years later.