Sentences with phrase «of social realism»

But what I mean is that it keeps it at the level of the social realism of the 1930s and, in that sense, it is really conservative.

This campaign - based on the style of social realism championed by Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)- was commissioned by the Federal Arts Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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.

The strong sense of social realism in that film is all the more realistic for the casual, unforced way it finds a place within the story.

Renato Guttuso was an Italian artist and a leader of social realism movement in Italy, whose paintings often carried strong political messages.

This classic, still - powerful reality - based indictment of the Depression - era prison system is the peak of Warner's 1930s school of social realism.

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.

While both The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde were nominated for best picture, they lost to a more conventional Hollywood slice of social realism, the Norman Jewison — directed In the Heat of the Night, a racial drama set in a small Southern town.

In practice, though, it is a surprisingly thoughtful enterprise, melancholy and even rather moving in places, as if those Belgian masters of social realism the Dardenne brothers had been handed the reins of Dodgebal... Read

William Gropper, a major painter of Social Realism and illustrator of political cartoons, was born in New York City in 1897.

Prints created from the 1920s through the 1940s, including many examples of social realism, are a particular strength.

Both seek, not always successfully, to reconcile the conventions of the classical detective story with the novel of social realism.»

The film, which was cited for the truth of its social realism, treated a couple of working class kids in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and their difficulties.

You sit down, and you watch this film that looks beautiful and well - filmed; it's not lit with the raw light of social realism, the camera isn't handheld... It looks like a «proper» film, following classical codes... But then, within it, something is hiding.

Beijing Bicycle marks his transition from a cinema of social realism to a more commercial realm.

If I had to describe the genre of Fearless Jones I would call it comic noire with a fringe of social realism.

After the western art capitol moved from Paris to New York because of the wars, critics like Greenberg posed American abstraction against Socialist Realism, and the standpoint of Social Realism became confused.

The earlier works in this show of drawings date to the mid 1940s, as the artist, newly liberated from the narrative pictorial space of social realism, reveled in cubist and calligraphic expression.

I have been equally attracted to and influenced by the New York movement of social realism best represented by the Union Square Artists of the 1930s.

By the 1940s, feeling the limitations of social realism, Lewis transitioned to abstraction.

His work of the 1940s makes me think of the brooding, crowded life of social realism, like the early work of Philip Guston.

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.

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.

From the vibrant explorations of Expressionism and Fauvism, new intellectual points of view of Cubism and Constructivism, the political stance of Social Realism and the rebellion of Dadaism, to the frenetic action painting, the re-invented return of Realism, the sensational Color Field painting or the mind - boggling Op Art, the powerful simplicity of Minimalism and the celebratory critique of Pop art, to say that the century behind us was artistically exciting is a great understatement.

The artist, Norbert Bisky, with his figure art, that intertwines the propaganda of the Social Realism imagery with the use of bright colors, explores the past promises, the state, and religion of today.

Furthermore all of this was funnelled through the traditionally conservative Soviet painting genre of Social Realism.

Renato Guttuso (1912 - 87) Italy's leading exponent of Social Realism, famous for Crucifixion (1941).

Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969) American painter and photographer, member of the social realism movement and the principle exponent of FSA photography.

His magical realist paintings are an outcropping of social realism.

The origins of Social Realism lie in the Ashcan School painters, who in the first decades of the 20th century depicted the commonplace, gritty, and unglamorous realities of city life.

It is part of a long established tradition of social realism, which maintains a close connection between the camera's unguarded eye and the democratic imperative to look directly at life, including the unsavory and the unseen, in a specific and unidealized way.

In contrast to the themes of social realism and regional life that characterized American art of previous decades, these artists valued, above all, individuality and spontaneous improvisation.

Biggers combined Afrofuturism's musical pipeline with the artwork concerns of the social realism painter and muralist John Biggers (1924 - 2001).

Alongside polemics in support of social realism, one found articles by Charmion von Wiegand — also a member of the American Abstract Artists — on Picasso and Mondrian and informed reviews of abstract art.

I have always been very interested in the power of the Social Realism movement.

In searching for alternatives to the strongly narrative art of Social Realism and Abstract painting, Georg Baselitz became interested in art considered to be outside of the mainstream of Modernism.

The debate between the merits of Social Realism, Regionalism and Abstraction raged in America throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

It was not until after The Depression, and the emergence of Social Realism during the 1930s, that these issues became a force in American art.

By shooting stark, black - and - white images that are purposely blurry and grainy, Nakahira broke with Japan's photographic history of social realism and allowed elements of uncertainty and expression into his work.

Antonio Berni was an Argentine figurative artist who is often associated with the movement known as Nuevo Realismo, a Latin American extension of social realism.

Fusing pop art's hard edges with the political ideals of social realism, and techniques of Tibetan painting with the graphic symbolism of West African sculpture and design, her practice occupies a unique space within the black arts movement of the 1960s and»70s.

It was 1951, roughly six years after he began painting the kind of Social Realism he'd later abandon, then redefine.

An early Martin Parr picture of a crowded pool in Filey, North Yorkshire shows a spirit of social realism

All three of the Filipino painters in this exhibit practice a local variant of social realism.

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).

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.