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Renato Habulan is an artist born in Philippines, considered as one of the most important figures in social realism in his native country.

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.

Quirt was denounced for abandoning Social Realism in favor of Surrealism, but in fact Surrealism had always been profoundly political.

«Social Realism in Blue: An Interview with James Rosenquist,» Studio International (London) 175, no. 897 (Feb. 1968), pp. 76 — 83.

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.

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.

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.

The composition, shot selection and the dialogue characterise friendship as the agency for fun, exploration and adventure in a child's life, and become stylistic counterpoints to the notion that social realism in cinema must be bleak and dour to be meaningful.

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If you choose, for example, to be an educator or a social worker or an artist, realism demands that you prepare for the possibility that a shrunken job market or the impossibility of making a decent living will force you to abandon your career aspirations in favor of something more «practical.»

Reinhold Niebuhr criticized this Pelagian vision of individuals and social orders in Moral Man and Immoral Society, replacing it with an Augustinian realism about human existence that tempered any optimism in human progress.

In response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movemenIn response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movemenin the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movement.

Thus sin appears in a Reinhold Niebuhr boomlet as the note of Christian realism needed in social ethics; ignorance receives attention through «the epistemological privilege of the poor» or an action hermeneutics; death is addressed in the issue of nuclear winter.

The sufferings of the Second World War and the spread of communism served to accentuate the note of sober realism in the social attitudes of the ecumenical movement.

It is because of their utter realism as they spoke within the conditions of a social and political community — or to adopt a current term, a responsible society — that next to the teachings of Jesus we find in them our firmest basis of social ethics.

Bellah calls his own view «symbolic realism» and he contrasts it both with the «primary naiveté» and «objectivism» of orthodoxy, and with the «functional reductionism» and «subjectivism» common in the social sciences.

This confession, rooted in the ancient piety and worship of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and nourished in the ecumenical movement, underlies an ethic of profound involvement in the struggle for social justice, profound realism about the powers of this world including those which possess the righteous, and a profound hope which is never satisfied by the achievements of this world.

Critical realism would encourage a variety of ways of studying religion in addition to the phenomenological approach.4 The contribution of sociological methods would be welcomed, since religion is indeed a social reality expressed in social institutions.

It just adds that little bit more realism into the feud and them carrying over their feuds into real life and social media kinda makes it easier for me to get invested in.

It's a documented fact that more than 30 % of men and women have used online dating sites to find companionship - that's the realism of our social structure in today's modern world and not the false portrayal of destiny and fate that inevitably brings people together when Hollywood is concerned.

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

Marco Bellocchio's «Vincere» has its admirers, particularly in the European critical community, as does Andrea Arnold's «Fish Tank» — though the former's biographic sweep and the latter's grim British social realism may strike the jurors as a little too familiar.

She raves: «I take comfort in knowing that we have a director who thoroughly understands and is willing to deeply engage with the social realism of today's America, one film at a time.»

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

The central trio including, Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis (who are all still relatively new to the industry) deliver a rich and compelling palate of pulpy realism that is dosed in teenage social complexities.

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.

The story is firmly anchored in (social) realism deflecting any trace of on - the - nose moralisations that may be present in his noted long conversational takes.

Our reaction: «A touch schmaltzy in places and the wraparound story distracts, but, for the main part, this is stunning social - realism from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki as a 12 - year - old boy and his one - year - old charge battle to survive on the streets.

Regardless of how effective the film was in removing barriers toward the horror via its commitment to realism, Scrapbook would nonetheless be received as an artifice by viewers due to the formal and social arrangements, such as credit sequences and watching the film on a tape which had either been bought or rented.

CUSTODY (note: this film is out in 2018) A rare instance of social realism harmonising with elements of the horror and thriller to create a heart - stopping, anxiety - inducing drama that not only enthrals but will also open audience's eyes to the hideousness of spousal abuse.

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.

This year's best screenplay award is a tie, with Nader Saeivar winning for her work on Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces, in which the director and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the Iranian countryside in search of a distressed teenaged girl; and Alice Rohrwacher, for Happy as Lazzaro, the tale of a simpleton that blends magic realism and social drama.

I Am Not A Witch is a harrowing story, yet the magical realism via cinematography is allegorically impressionistic while the dooming consequences of Shula (Margaret Mulubwa) are devastating as it reflects a country caught in a social flux.

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

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.

Sun, sea and Sokurov... yes, it's nearly Cannes time again and in a couple of months some of the brightest and best of the movie world will be descending on the Croisette in a rampage of languid art house flicks and urgent social realism.

So self - serious that it became an unwitting parody of the beloved first season, the return of «True Detective» struck an uncomfortable compromise between wild, fantastical elements (a corpse with its eyes burned out, an assailant in a bird's head mask) and social realism (online porn, PTSD, substance abuse)-- and in the process exposed Nic Pizzolatto's writing as a bunch of risible blather masquerading as poetry.

Returning to filmmaking after saying he was retiring in 2014, the 80 - year - old Loach rails against the system with his trademark style of stripped - down social realism.

In Yann Demange's debut feature» 71, this brand of social realism is served in the style of a tense war - time thrilleIn Yann Demange's debut feature» 71, this brand of social realism is served in the style of a tense war - time thrillein the style of a tense war - time thriller.

There's been a backlash against these films in recent years (partly levelled at the public school, Oxbridge provenance of the filmmakers), but the fact that most of them ride high on this list suggests they're still credited with initiating a new age of storytelling in British cinema, both in terms of the range, social and geographical, of subjects and a style of filmmaking that honours realism above all else.

The provincial city in Weekend is never named, but the film was shot in Nottingham, in many of the same locations as Karel Reisz's landmark of kitchen - sink realism Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which also spans a weekend and whose characters are likewise bristling against the social climate of their time; Glen is in some ways a modern, gay version of Albert Finney's original angry young man.

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).

There's a wide range of genres in this year's best first novels, from fantasy and mystery to social realism, and many new writers open up the old formulas and break boundaries in form and subject.

During the 1930s while Regionalism and Social Realism reined in America, Graham's expertise in Surrealism and Cubism canonized him for a new generation of American Modernists, including de Kooning, Gorky, David Smith and Franz Kline, among others.

Both Krasner (1908 - 1984) and Lewis (1909 - 1979) embraced abstraction in the 1940s, after early flirtations with Social Realism: They both had been involved in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (and may even have met through that organization), and Lewis had been a member of the Harlem artists» group 306 (which included the socially minded artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.)

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.

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.

Surrealism USa, the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name at the National Academy of Design, traces the history of this movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s by examining its manifestations throughout the country — from Social Surrealism and California Post-Surrealism to Magic Realism and the beginning of Abstract Expressionism.

Best known for the incredible quality and consistency present in his work, Georg Baselitz was exposed to Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism before playing a major role in reviving the German Expressionism and ushering a path for Neo-Expressionism.

His career began in the 1930s, when he used the style of social realism to convey both the struggles and everyday lives of black people, shaped not only by racism but also by the Great Depression.

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