Sentences with phrase «socialist realist»

At the same time, they were given the chance to work independently of state commissioning and outside the hitherto exclusively sanctioned socialist realist style.

Most socialist realist posters were created by unknown artists.

Silence is not an option when your government does not speak for you or when a country such as Cameroon has no art schools or museums; or when in South Africa hierarchies of apartheid and exclusion privileged only a minority to officially partake in art; or when in Ethiopia, the communist military junta which overthrew Haile Selassie in 1974 also undid his work as patron of the arts, turned the art school into a socialist realist propaganda machine and jailed or killed all dissident voices.

• SOCIALIST REALIST PAINTERS (c.1928 - 80) Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878 - 1927) Influenced by French Impressionism.

Her father was a socialist realist sculptor, and that contributed to her work's documentary quality.

Lee was subsequently nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998, and selected to represent South Korea at the 1999 Venice Biennale (having already been included in Szeemann's curated exhibition)-- the year that another East Asian artist, Cai Guo - Qiang, won the coveted Golden Lion award for his controversial Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard (1999), a crumbling, recreated work of socialist realist propaganda.

The individual and the collective merge into one, with the imagery at times recalling socialist realist painting and sculpture of the 20s and 30s.

The New Tretyakov is Russia's largest museum building, housing a significant collection of suprematist, constructivist and socialist realist artworks.

20 July 2015 traces the removal of several socialist realist sculptures from a prominent site in central Vilnius, known as the Green Bridge.

Sumptuous color plates showcase a dazzling array of achievements — including Shanghai School paintings, modern calligraphy, commercial art, 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, modern guohua (traditional ink and color paintings), socialist realist paintings and other contemporary works.

Loach shaped works he developed with such writers as Nell Dunn, Jeremy Sandford, and Jim Allen into a singularly humanistic socialist realist vision.

BTW, we of course get to like the website and hate the candidate — I can dislike the Soviet regime but still groove on stylized socialist realist posters, for instance.

Celebrated avant - garde artists from Kandinsky to Malevich will be presented alongside lesser - known Socialist Realists in a show that will not only include painting and sculpture but also design, architecture, film and propaganda.

The one - way relationship between modernist painters and the CIA — only recently confirmed by former case officer Donald Jameson — supposedly enabled the agency to make the work of Soviet Socialist Realists appear, in Jameson's words, «even more stylized and more rigid and confined than it was.»

Jerome Myers (1867 - 1940) Born in Virginia to a poor family, his deprived background led him to paint New York's slums, though in a romanticized way rather than in the politically motivated way of the Socialist Realists.

Not exact matches

My grandfather, Max Kalish, was a well known socialist / realist artist and he... -LSB-...]

This title also referred to the realist style of art known as «Socialist Realism», then the official art doctrine of the Soviet Union and its satellites (from one which he had fled with his family), but it also commented upon the consumer - driven art «doctrine» of western capitalism.

Few of these works were seen by others — they were gathered by Wróblewski's mother after his death — and they never came to the single - mindedness of either the large works in blue or the dutiful socialist - realist paintings that Wróblewski also had to make.

Capa's photographs of the collective farm appear to portray socialist - realist style happy labourers bringing in a harvest under blue skies, where the reality was of a community struggling to return to any kind of normality in a land pockmarked with shell - craters.

Along with Pietro Consagra, Achille Perilli, and Giulio Turcato, in 1947 he helped formulating a manifesto and establish a group of abstract artists called Forma I. Although imbued with socialist leanings, the group did not follow the realist social commentary furthered by Guttuso but proposed to reclaim abstraction from the Futurism movement.

This questioning of the continued relevance and future siting of public sculpture continues a line of enquiry by Jankowski that has previously seen him create numerous life - size bronze Living Statues (2007)-- simulacra of street performers posing as Julius Caesar and Che Guevara in Barcelona — as well as a giant socialist - realist sculpture based on an anachronistically luxurious photograph by one of the Mexican Muralists, entitled Monument to the Bourgeois Working Class (2012).

Not to mention that within the figurative artists there were left - wing, socialist / realist kind of artists, who didn't get along with right - wing realists [laughs].

Inspired by recent art - historical scholarship and in line with art - market trends, the exhibition eschews the binary of avant - garde experiment and socialist - realist conformity in favor of a thematic presentation that addresses contentious issues such as the formation of proletarian subjectivity, the impact of crash industrialization and agricultural collectivization, and the persistence of nationalism notwithstanding the hope for world revolution.

Presented in the varied forms of photo collage, multi-channel video projections, a sound installation, and a CD mix, the exhibition subtly proposes new interpretative frameworks for historical images previously often relegated to a strictly socialist - realist reading as well as their contemporary variables whose «ode to infrastructure» are often left unnoticed.

This title also referred to the realist style of art known as Socialist Realism, then the official art doctrine of the Soviet Union, but it also commented upon the consumer - driven art doctrine of western capitalism.