Sentences with phrase «social realism movement»

He spoke in favour of abstract art, and against the more fashionable Social Realism movement.

I have always been very interested in the power of the Social Realism movement.

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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 movement.

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.

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.

Part of the Rive Gauche film movement (the nouvelle vague's even more rebellious sibling) she created films that deal with mortality, time and a revised social realism.

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.

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.

This genre, Social Realism, was considered a minor movement by the art establishment.

As a teenager, Gechtoff was heavily influenced by Ben Shahn's style of social realism [5], an international political and social movement that drew attention to the struggles of the working class and the poor.

To contextualize our work, we will examine the emergence of Realism in the nineteenth century; survey different realist movements from art history, including naturalism and social realism; and analyze how, over time, painters have adopted realist conventions to their owRealism in the nineteenth century; survey different realist movements from art history, including naturalism and social realism; and analyze how, over time, painters have adopted realist conventions to their owrealism; and analyze how, over time, painters have adopted realist conventions to their own ends.

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.

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

The gallery handles artwork from early 20th - century movements including American Modernism, African American Art, Social Realism, Regionalism, Magic Realism, and Precisionism by such artists as Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Bluemner, Paul Cadmus, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, PaJaMa, Fairfield Porter, Ben Shahn, and others.

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 Steuart Curry.

In 2013, he curated the group show, «So Real» at Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, which examined contemporary themes in artworks related either directly or indirectly to both the Social Realism and Socialist Realism movements of the early 20th century.

These works were presented under the name of «Capital Realism», a nod to both East German Social Realist art movement and Pop Art in America.

Partly due to the Great Depression, Regionalism became one of the dominant art movements in America in the 1930s, the other being Social Realism.

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.

Antonio Berni was an Argentine figurative artist who is often associated with the movement known as Nuevo Realismo, a Latin American extension of social 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.

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.

His work took on a singular style, which defies categorization but shows the influences of the dominant movements of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and surrealism, as well as the dominant movements of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.

Two main American art movements of 1930s - Regionalism and Social Realism — were unapt to provide the language for an emerging reality.

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.

The problem was that the two main art movements of the 1930s - namely, Regionalism and Social Realism - failed to satisfy their desire for a break with current thinking.

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