Sentences with phrase «with social realism»

Ditto his break with social realism, which dominated photography at the time.

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.)

The Great Depression defined the thirties as American Art entered the dark ages with social realism and genre painting leading the way.

Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne have their own way with social realism and commentary, one that that doesn't have Loach's humor but is just as good at capturing the textures and rhythms of lives and often better as sketching the anxieties and conflicts within communities.

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.»

Not exact matches

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 movement.

Howells's realism couldn't compete with Twain's wit, Norris's melodrama, Crane's grit, or James's psycho - social depth.

Both seek, not always successfully, to reconcile the conventions of the classical detective story with the novel of social realism.»

Niebuhr's realism required «recognizing that the imperfections of the world stemmed from fallen human nature, that the social implications of human selfishness had to be reckoned with, that to improve the world it would be necessary to work with human limitations and not dream of obliterating them.

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.

Comics have never needed realism to create complicated character arcs or social commentary, and perhaps the reason Black Panther feels so much like an actual Marvel comic is that it expresses its ideas with unapologetically clashing color.

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly can not accuse the selection committee of putting together a one - note program, or of being restricted only to socially conscious films produced within the traditions of film realism.

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.

When contrasted with the stunning social realism and accessible philosophy of Blue is the Warmest Colour, which also covered young sexuality, Nymphomaniac is comparatively a juvenile afterthought.

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.

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.

A little girl is accused of witchcraft after a minor accident, a situation that takes on shades of magical realism along with social commentary.

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

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.

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.

It sometimes feels that the British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»

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.

If I had to describe the genre of Fearless Jones I would call it comic noire with a fringe of social realism.

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Neel's dedication to the «unfashionable» art of portrait painting and social realism — and this during the decades of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde artistic developments.

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.

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.

A notable characteristic of modernism is self - consciousness and irony concerning literary and social traditions, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. [4] Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism [5][6][7] and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody.

During the 1930s, Social Realism allowed American painters to express their political discontent with unfavorable domestic and social condiSocial Realism allowed American painters to express their political discontent with unfavorable domestic and social condisocial conditions.

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.

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

Rail: Maybe, after Social Realism, he had to deal with Clement Greenberg without sacrificing his socialist stance?

In an interview with the Observer the same year, Caulfield said his interest in interiors developed in art school as a reaction against social realism.

In New York, he studied with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in the 1940s, and became attuned to Marsh's gritty brand of social realism, honed during the Depression.

And as Communist ideology swept through Southeast Asia in the mid-20th century, Nguyen Duc Nung combined the working - class heroes of Social Realism with lacquer techniques to portray a shining new future.

At the same time, knowing that African American artists had for years been largely expected to make works of social realism, and the ambition to make abstract works every bit as important as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris marked a equally revolutionary statement of artistic freedom, the abstractions of Bowling, Gilliam, Thomas and Ed Clark — who created shaped canvases, sweeping paint across them with push - brooms — are no less arresting.

He then studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, and showed the first of his Capitalist Realist works, which were ironic responses to Social Realism and Pop Art, in a 1963 exhibition he organized with fellow artists Gerhard Richter and Konrad Fischer - Lueg.

His paintings, most of them large - scale works featuring African - American subjects, are composed in a style that blends social realism with outsider art and demonstrate a critical, self - conscious and sensuous eye.

Sharrer's colorful canvases, with their unique blending of Social Realism and Surrealism, established the artist early in her career as a new American voice.

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

Another scoffs at Social Realism by amassing newspaper images of East German Olympic athletes and crossing each out with a big black X.

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.

The progression of modernity that saw the subsequent embrace of the «other» in European art, from social Realism through to Abstract Expressionism, runs in parallel with the gradual breakdown of certain colonial and imperial forces, making accessible the cultures that could only previously have existed in the European imagination.

At the same time, the American scene was equally hostile to us because if, as we thought, to make an authentic gesture without any a priori idea of how it would turn out, was the real gambit, then everything — «hard - edge» abstraction with its ideology, Social Realism with its ideology, regionalism with its ideology, landscape painting with its sentimentality, portrait painting with its class background, anything you could imagine — was equally threatened by our premise.

Biggers combined Afrofuturism's musical pipeline with the artwork concerns of the social realism painter and muralist John Biggers (1924 - 2001).

At the time, an expressionistic school existed in Lithuania that was unconcerned with realism or social issues.

She's Hung Liu, with a national reputation for blending social realism with expressionism,» says gallery director Trish Bransten.

He forms a unique social discourse, developing events that break with traditional notions of performance and embrace realism and interaction as necessary aspects of the viewing experience.