Sentences with phrase «social surrealism»

Ossei - Mensah writes, «Commenting on the concepts of race, representation, white supremacy, oppressive social structures, humanity and grace, the works... proselytize their audience with narratives of social surrealism.»

An exhibition of works drawn from the museum's permanent collection considers the work of Chicago artist Frederick D. Jones Jr. in relation to the art movement known as social surrealism.

The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.

Not exact matches

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

It is also a characteristic subject of the American Ashcan School, German expressionism, French surrealism and American social realism.

His friend Onslow Ford gave talks on surrealism at the New School of Social Research in which he commented extensively on Matta's works.

Modern and contemporary styles represented in the collection include precisionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop and op art, Fluxus, photo realism, and minimalism, as well as works that explore social and political issues.

From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the «father figures» of surrealism, including Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to her galvanizing role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the «woman artist» and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

Embracing and melding abstraction, surrealism, social documentary and street photography, Walker's work challenges the myth of a singular African - American aesthetic.

Their works represent the convergence of the appeal of digital media and cinematic time and process filtered through the lenses of such conceptual frameworks as surrealism (William Kentridge, Pipilotti Rist, Joan Jonas), social realism (Isaac Julien, Gary Hill, Francis Alÿs), popular culture (Paul McCarthy, Pierre Huyghe, David Claerbout), and structuralism (Anri Sala, Douglas Gordon).

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.

Initially influenced by surrealism and cubism, abstract expressionists rejected the social realism, regionalism, and geometric abstraction so popular with American painters of the 1930s.

This group of noted American and British sculptors explores themes that range from social realism to otherworldly surrealism to abstraction of form.

Thematic group exhibitions on Modernism, early American abstraction, realism, surrealism, abstract expressionism and social realism have also been consistently presented from new perspectives.