Sentences with phrase «social protest painters»
Stylistically the group ranged from Abstract Expressionists to social protest painters.
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«Getting old sucks,» Leon Golub (1922 — 2004), the painter of social protest and mocking, existential angst noted in one of his late paintings.
The New York - based group, mainly painters at various stages of their careers, experimented with abstraction and protest, delving into the responsibility of the artist in unifying their community, particularly during times of social upheaval and change.
The Irish painter Brian Maguire is an artiste engagé, a secular missionary who devotes his talent to a form of social protest.
John Walker, Paintings from America (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1951), 36, opined that Snow in New York was evidence that the Ashcan school painters were capable of «subtle tenderness» in addition to their reputation for painterly gusto and social protest, and noted its «mood of wistfulness, its nostalgia like that curious sadness which sometimes comes at twilight.»