A movement which grew from a desire to represent a more easily recognisable reality, at a time when much of modern art was turning abstract, Social realism built on earlier waves of realist movement and the Ashcan School to create art which documented everyday reality for working class and poor people in Depression-era America. It […]
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The early 20th Century was a tumultuous period in art, and also the wider world, with wars, revolutions, and huge shifts in geopolitics and society. Artists were reconsidering what art was too and increasingly seeking to tear up the past, which these major worldwide events fed into and inspired. The First World War impacted so […]
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