Sentences with phrase «social realism»

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

While other students were presenting portraits of family and friends, when he showed his drawings of his family, they were seen as social realism because they were images of black people.

These directors made their mark at the beginning of their careers in the context of contemporary British social realism, though they have later on moved to different types of filmmaking.

Contemporary African American artists no longer rely on social realism to tell their stories, but their work continues to reflect the legacy of suffering and inequality.

As far as social realism films go, this one simply must be seen.

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.

Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne have their own way with social realism and commentary, one that that doesn't have Loach's humor but is just as good at capturing the textures and rhythms of lives and often better as sketching the anxieties and conflicts within communities.

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

The Academy was known to have been dominated by social realism and Wu was called «a fortress of bourgeois formalism».

In an interview with the Observer the same year, Caulfield said his interest in interiors developed in art school as a reaction against social realism.

Invoking social realism more than pulp fiction, Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress is an innovative genre film on several counts.

The progression of modernity that saw the subsequent embrace of the «other» in European art, from social Realism through to Abstract Expressionism, runs in parallel with the gradual breakdown of certain colonial and imperial forces, making accessible the cultures that could only previously have existed in the European imagination.

A mysterious and intimate fable in the guise of gritty social realism, simply and powerfully acted.

She's Hung Liu, with a national reputation for blending social realism with expressionism,» says gallery director Trish Bransten.

With Abstract Expressionisism, he had turned away from the prevailing Social Realism movement of the 1930's toward more esthetic adventures: exploring the potential of color, line, gesture, form.

Social realism at its best.

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.

And in some ways the pivotal movement of those times, because it again got most of the criticism, was what people called Social Realism.

This was, unfortunately, viewed as entirely at odds with the state approved Social Realism of the time, and landed the pioneering artist in prison.

As Surrealism was gradually introduced to these artists, aspects of horror and fantasy were integrated into Social Realism creating a hybrid style called Social Surrealism.

Rejecting social realism and regionalism of the 1930s, this generation of artists embraced abstract surrealism - a nonobjective language with limitless possibilities.

When Social Realism and the American Scene were considered the important thing, he took an aesthetic stand as opposed to regional subject matter... His attitude helped reinforce me in my chosen direction.

And here, too, I could only blame myself for missing the obvious, even as together the work finds a space between social realism and Surrealism.

Director Antonio Pietrangeli combines earthy humor with hard - hitting, slice - of - life social realism, while Mastroianni, in a memorable supporting role, displays his trademark charismatic insouciance as a smooth - talking car salesman.

While I wasn't thoroughly impressed with Clio Barnard's narrative feature debut about two tween boys living on an English estate, everyone else sure seems to be floored by this coming - of - age film done in the Brit's social realism tradition reaching as far back as Ken Loach, and more recently to the likes of Andrea Arnold.

The struggle between the pragmatism of Juan's outlook and the idea of sullied purity of Okwe and Senay is really all you need know about the picture — it's a piece composed of equal parts social realism and fairytale martyrdom, with either part watered down by the other.

Rail: Maybe, after Social Realism, he had to deal with Clement Greenberg without sacrificing his socialist stance?

Not only did he rebel against the dominating Social Realism, he also went against tradition in painting in general.

When World War II ended, Regionalism and Social Realism lost status in the art world.

Regionalism and Social Realism also lost popularity among American viewers due to a lack of development within the movement due to the tight constraints of the art to agrarian subject matter.

He also painted social realism, painting with «an overtly figurative style, depicting bread lines, evictions, and police brutality.»

There is finally something shallow about the highminded social realism in much twentieth - century American drama, with its progressive and open - ended vision of life.

The manifesto cover is a curious cross between utopian social realism from the 1930s and a margarine commercial.

Full of saturated colors — the title comes from the profusion of orange in the film's palette — Sin - Dee and Alexandra's odyssey is simultaneously social realism and sexually - charged escapade.

It's unlikely to win over Merchant - Ivory skeptics, but it does represent an intriguing transition from the India - centered social realism of their earlier work to the lavish literary adaptations for which they would become famous.

The combination of the Dardennes» gently exposing social realism with Haenel's captivating energy is going to be a rich dish.

Golden Bear - winning drama from Peru and Essex social realism star in this part of our female filmmaker compendium.

When contrasted with the stunning social realism and accessible philosophy of Blue is the Warmest Colour, which also covered young sexuality, Nymphomaniac is comparatively a juvenile afterthought.

The Last Detail is a masterpiece, a lyrical blend of anti-war politics and earthy social realism.

The inevitable outgrowth of the immersive social realism of the Taiwanese cinema of the Nineties is the aesthetic sheen and near formal abstraction that the Taiwanese masters developed in the Aughts.

It is to Lynne Ramsay's credit that it is difficult, if not impossible, to slot her debut feature into any existing British genre or tradition, though there are echoes here of Ken Loach's early poetic social realism, of Bill Douglas's stark, painterly style, and of Robert Bresson's «pure» cinema, stripped down and sensual.

An assured piece of filmmaking, Cold Hell succeeds in mixing social realism with more standard thriller elements and scenes of gut - wrenching violence.

As with her previous films «Unrelated» and «Archipelago» (which both also featured Tom Hiddleston, who cameos as an estate agent here), Hogg's trafficking in a kind of bourgeois social realism, here leavened with a more expressionistic feel involving dream - like sequences and a nightmarish, borderline - dystopic sound design.