social realism
DESCRIPTION
A look at social realism from various cultures. Visit the ISB Art History channel (http://vimeo.com/channels/isbarthistorychannel) and my website (http://mountains.brianreverman.com/) for additional resources.TRANSCRIPT
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• 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?