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
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The French School, 19th Century
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Bouguereau, Cupid and the Lady, 19th century
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Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
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Honore Daumier
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Honore Daumier, Le Mal de Tete, 1860?
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Honore Daumier, The Uprising, 1860
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Honore Daumier, Third Class Carriage, 1865
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Grant Wood
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Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930
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Grant Wood, Woman with Plants, 1929
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Grant Wood, Daughters of the Revolution, 1932
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Ash Can School
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Ben Shawn, The Pasison of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1932
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Ben Shawn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1967
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John Sloan, A Woman’s Work, early 20th century
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Lawson, Harlem Flats, early 20th century
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George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909
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Dorothea Lange
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936
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Dorothea Lange, Scenes from the Dustbowl
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Dorothea Lange, On the Road, 1936
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Dorothea Lange, Waiting for Work, 1936
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Margaret Bourke-White
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Margaret Bourke-White. Bread Line during the Louisville Flood, 1937
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Margaret Bourke-White, Buchewald, 1945
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Thomas Hart Benton
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Thomas Hart Benton, Plowing it Under, 1934
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Thomas Hart Benton, People of Chilmark, 1920
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Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera, detail, the Detroit Industrial Murals, 1932-33
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Diego Rivera, Mexico Today and Tomorrow, 1935
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Diego Rivera, Man Controls the Universe, 1934
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Leon Golub
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Leon Golub, The Interrogation, 1981
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Leon Golub, Interrogation III, 1981
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Leon Golub , White Squad V, 1984.
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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.
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SOCIAL REALISM FROM THE SOVIET UNION
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Delesio Antonio Berni Desocupados (Unemployed people), mid 20th century
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SOCIAL REALISM FROM CHINA
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Sheng Qi Luo Brothers
Wang Guangyi Zhang Yongtu
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Sheng Qi
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Sheng Qi
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Sheng Qi
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Sheng Qi
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Sheng Qi
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Luo Brothers
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Luo Brothers
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Wang Guangyi
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Wang Guangyi
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Wang Guangyi
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Wang Guangyi
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Zhang Yongtu
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Zhang Yongtu
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Zhang Yongtu
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PROPAGANDA FROM WWII
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Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943
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ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA FROM NORTH KOREA
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Anti-American propaganda from North Korea
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Anti-American propaganda from North Korea
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Anti-American propaganda from North Korea
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Anti-American propaganda from North Korea
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FAR RIGHT ANTI OBAMA IMAGES
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PROPAGANDA PARODY
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WHY ARE THESE EFFECTIVE IMAGES?
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