Sentences with phrase «painted social realism»

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The paintings are impossible to imagine without Social Realism, China's state - sanctioned style of painting, but its influence is no less oppressive than that of Gerhard Richter, say, or Sean Scully and Chuck Close.

Neel's dedication to the «unfashionable» art of portrait painting and social realism — and this during the decades of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde artistic developments.

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

The collection begins with Ashcan School painting and follows the major movements of the twentieth century in America, with strengths in Modernism and Social Realism, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, art centered on identity and politics that came to the fore in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary work.

Hallmarked at once by expressionism and realism, Alice Neel's œuvre translates the paradoxical personality of its maker, who wanted to paint individuals from all social classes and create a visual history of her time — a Comédie Humaine.

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.

His paintings evidenced the influence of Cubism, Social realism, and Surrealism at the service of a personal expression that was poignant and enigmatic.

A notable characteristic of modernism is self - consciousness and irony concerning literary and social traditions, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. [4] Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism [5][6][7] and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.

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.

On view will be major examples of abstraction from the New York based American Abstract Artists Group and the Transcendental Painting Group, centered in the South West, social realism, Surrealism, and various expressions of modernism.

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.

Morgan Falconer tells the story beginning with Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists on both sides of the Atlantic, proceeds through postwar abstraction in France, social realism in East Germany, the end of geometric abstraction in Europe, American post-painterly abstraction, the handmade ready - mades of Rauschenberg and Johns, Pop's rise in Britain and the US, painting's confrontations with photography in the 1960s and beyond, the return of expressionism in the 1980s, new approaches to Pop in the 1990s and 2000s, and the continued variety of some of the most recent paintings to be made by a younger, «post-medium» generation of artists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

His paintings, most of them large - scale works featuring African - American subjects, are composed in a style that blends social realism with outsider art and demonstrate a critical, self - conscious and sensuous eye.

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

At this time, his style was grounded in social realism, and his paintings focused on the lives and struggles of urban black Americans.

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.

Realist Painters • Ashcan School, New York (1900 - 1915) • Mexican Mural Painters (c.1920 - 40) • Socialist Realist Painters (c.1928 - 80) • Social Realism (1930 - 45) • American Scene Painting (c.1925 - 45) • Photorealism (1960s onwards)

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.

His magical realist paintings are an outcropping of social realism.

His career reflects a wide - ranging variety of styles - from social realism, to abstraction, to figurative painting.

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.

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 Steuarpainting 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 SteuarPainting (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.

The biggest revelations are her implacable paintings from the 1960s, which blend Pop, Social Realism and several kinds of abstraction and sometimes presage current forms of language art.

It contains a large number of paintings of the American West as well as significant examples of works from the Ashcan School, early American modernism, Regionalism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Pop, Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, and Conceptual and Performance art.

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.

American Scene Painting is an umbrella term for American Regionalism and Social Realism otherwise known as Urban 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.

By the 1940s, Regionalism and Social Realism were placed on the same side of the debate as American Scene Painting, leaving only two camps, that were divided geographically and politically.

Over the course of her career Lundeberg explored numerous idioms of expression; her work has been alternately characterized as working within the parameters of Hard - Edge Painting, Geometric Abstraction, Social Realism, and, perhaps most famously, Post Surrealism — a style and movement that she pioneered with Feitelson.

The gallery specializes in 20th century American painting, sculpture, and works on paper, including Modernism, Magic Realism, African American, Social Realism, and Abstraction Expressionism.

These modern movements include Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Metaphysical painting, De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Op art, Minimalism, and Neo-Expressionism.

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

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.

PP: Well the high point for social realism was 19th - century French painting.

Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Paintings of the 1930s.

The late 1920s and the 1930s belonged (among many others) to two movements in American painting, Regionalism and Social Realism.