Sentences with phrase «prevailing social realism»
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.
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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.