Examples of social realism in the following topics:
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- American painting in the 1930s and 40s is marked by developments in Regionalism, Social Realism, and Modernist techniques like Precisionism.
- The dominant styles of the time include Regionalism, Social Realism, Precisionism, and Abstract Modernism.
- A closely related movement to Regionalism, Social Realism was an artistic movement which depicted social and racial injustice and economic hardship through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles.
- Many artists who subscribed to Social Realism were painters with socialist (but not necessarily Marxist) political views.
- Compare and contrast the painting styles of Regionalism, Social Realism, Precisionism, and Abstract Modernism.
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- Social realism, also known as socio-realism, became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
- Social realism depicted social and racial injustice, and economic hardship through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles, often depicting working-class activities as heroic.
- The movement was largely a style of painting that typically conveyed a message of social or political protest edged with satire; however it also extended to the art of photography.
- Alongside social realism, another approach to photography referred to as "straight photography" was also gaining momentum.
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- After World War I, many American artists rejected the modern trends emanating from the Armory Show and European influences, choosing instead to adopt an academic realism to depict American rural scenes.
- Partly due to the Great Depression, Regionalism became one of the dominant art movements in America in the 1930s (the other being Social Realism).
- A debate between abstraction versus realism had been ongoing since the 1913 Armory Show, and this continued throughout the 1930s between Regionalism, Social Realism, and Abstract art.
- By the 1940s this debate had evolved into two "camps" that were divided geographically and politically: the Regionalists and the Social Realists who primarily lived in rural areas and whose work addressed social, economic and political issues; and the Abstract artists who primarily lived in New York City and embraced Modernism.
- During the 1930s, these artists documented and depicted American small towns and rural landscapes, as well as cities; the works which stress local and small-town themes are often called "American Regionalism", and those depicting urban scenes, with political and social consciousness, are called "Social Realism".
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- Realism is the attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in an objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation.
- More generally, realist works of art are those that, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism.
- For example, in Germany and the United States, Realism adopted many different forms.
- From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, the United States experienced enormous industrial, economic, social, and cultural changes.
- Differentiate Realism in Biedermeier German art from Realism in early 20th century American art
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- American Realism attempted to portray the true reality, glamour, and grit of early 20th century America.
- From the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, the United States experienced enormous industrial, economic, social, and cultural change.
- Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the now, American Realism presented a new gateway and a breakthrough—introducing modernism, and what it means to be in the present.
- Work was often characterized by socially conscious imagery.
- Edward Hopper developed an individual style of realism by concentrating on light and form, and avoiding overt social content .
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- Édouard Manet, a French painter, was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
- One of the first nineteenth-century artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
- Adopting the current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, he painted The Absinthe Drinker (1858–59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafés, and bullfights.
- One of Manet's earliest works that demonstrates his interests in loose bush strokes and the leisurely social activities of 19th-century Parisians.
- Express why Édouard Manet is considered a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism
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- A strong relationship between the arts and politics has occurred across historical cultures; as they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change.
- Some street artists use "smart vandalism" as a way to raise awareness of social and political issues, especially around issues of race and racism.
- Street artists sometimes present socially relevant content infused with aesthetic value, to attract attention to a cause or as a form of "art provocation".
- Cynical realism is a contemporary movement in Chinese art, especially in the form of painting, that began in the 1990s and has become one of the most popular contemporary art movements in mainland China.
- Artists associated with Cynical Realism include Fang Lijun, Liu Wei, and Yue Minjun.
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- Modernism criticizes from the inside. " The French Revolution of 1789 uprooted assumptions and institutions that had for centuries been accepted with little question and exposed the public to vigorous political and social debate.
- Influences upon these movements were varied: from exposure to Eastern decorative arts, particularly Japanese printmaking, to the coloristic innovations of Turner and Delacroix, to a search for more realism in the depiction of common life, as found in the work of painters such as Jean-François Millet.
- The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition-bound academic art that enjoyed public and official favor.