Sentences with phrase «social realist murals»

This leisurely 18 mile bike ride through Pittsburgh will feature visits to the wondrous social realist murals by Maxo Vanka in Millvale as well as the renegade palace of Randy Gilson in the North Side.

In a manner both visually gripping and psychologically strange, Pittman's hallucinatory works reference myriad aesthetic styles, from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals to Mexican «retablos.»

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Works by David Siqueiros, a political, radical - minded Mexican social realist painter, and an adversary of Rivera, who was best known for his large fresco murals, are also included in the collection.

Socially aware and socially conscious novels, films, music, mural painting, social realist painting, addressed the ills of American society.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

The murals of the Mexican social - realists, the abstract geometric paintings of Piet Mondrian, and the cut outs of Matisse are some of the influences that shape his work.

Philip Guston was a painter and printmaker who began as a social realist painter, associated with the mural movement involving artists such as Diego Rivera and working for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project in New York City during the 1930s.

Guccione worked with Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro - Siqueiros on Post Office murals for the federal Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.

Inspiration for the Social Realists came from the Ashcan School (many of them had studied with Ashcan artist John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York) and from the Mexican murals pioneered by Gerardo Murillo (1875 - 1964).