social realism

pov

• History painting, including narrative religious mythological and allegorical subjects

• Portrait painting

• Genre painting or scenes of everyday life

• Landscape

• Animal painting

• Still life

Hierarchy of GenresAcademy of Painting and Sculpture, 19th Century, Paris

The French School, 19th Century

Bouguereau, Cupid and the Lady, 19th century

Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

Honore Daumier

Honore Daumier, Le Mal de Tete, 1860?

Honore Daumier, The Uprising, 1860

Honore Daumier, Third Class Carriage, 1865

Grant Wood

Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood, Woman with Plants, 1929

Grant Wood, Daughters of the Revolution, 1932

Ash Can School

Ben Shawn, The Pasison of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1932

Ben Shawn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1967

John Sloan, A Woman’s Work, early 20th century

Lawson, Harlem Flats, early 20th century

George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936

Dorothea Lange, Scenes from the Dustbowl

Dorothea Lange, On the Road, 1936

Dorothea Lange, Waiting for Work, 1936

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White. Bread Line during the Louisville Flood, 1937

Margaret Bourke-White, Buchewald, 1945

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton, Plowing it Under, 1934

Thomas Hart Benton, People of Chilmark, 1920

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera, detail, the Detroit Industrial Murals, 1932-33

Diego Rivera, Mexico Today and Tomorrow, 1935

Diego Rivera, Man Controls the Universe, 1934

Leon Golub

Leon Golub, The Interrogation, 1981

Leon Golub, Interrogation III, 1981

Leon Golub , White Squad V, 1984.

WHAT IS A META-MESSAGE?

A meta-message describes those messages that come through reading between the lines. For example, someone sends his wife an email stating he has three meetings that morning and a report to get out in the afternoon. What he is really saying is, "don't bother me today.

SOCIAL REALISM FROM THE SOVIET UNION

Delesio Antonio Berni Desocupados (Unemployed people), mid 20th century

SOCIAL REALISM FROM CHINA

Sheng Qi Luo Brothers

Wang Guangyi Zhang Yongtu

Sheng Qi

Sheng Qi

Sheng Qi

Sheng Qi

Sheng Qi

Luo Brothers

Luo Brothers

Luo Brothers

Wang Guangyi

Wang Guangyi

Wang Guangyi

Wang Guangyi

Wang Guangyi

Zhang Yongtu

Zhang Yongtu

Zhang Yongtu

Zhang Yongtu

PROPAGANDA FROM WWII

Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943

ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA FROM NORTH KOREA

Anti-American propaganda from North Korea

Anti-American propaganda from North Korea

Anti-American propaganda from North Korea

Anti-American propaganda from North Korea

FAR RIGHT ANTI OBAMA IMAGES

PROPAGANDA PARODY

WHY ARE THESE EFFECTIVE IMAGES?