Tag Archives: Social realism art

The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

For my third look at Realism art and Social Realism art I am going back to the land of its inception, France.   The emergence of this form of art came about in France around 1848, the year King Louis-Philippe lost … Continue reading →

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Barge-Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

My blog today continues, as promised, with the Social Realism Movement in art.  Social Realism is a very broad term for painting or literature that comments on contemporary social political or economic conditions, usually from a left-wing viewpoint, in a … Continue reading →

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Hush and Hushed by Frank Holl

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

I get great pleasure in “discovering” new artists.  Today I am going to look at the life of an artist I had never previously heard of and maybe he is somebody that you have never come across before.  In My … Continue reading →

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