The Tyee: The Case of the Nearly Lost Mural that Lionizes Workers https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/06/19/Case-Nearly-Lost-Mural-Lionizes-Workers/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #InternationalLongshoreandWarehouseUnion #UnitedFishermenandAlliedWorkers’Union #JimSinclairBCFederationofLabour #Vancouver&DistrictLabourCouncil #SeanGriffinPacificTribune #VancouverBoilermakers #MaritimeLabourCentre #PenderAuditorium #FerdinandPetrov #Vancouvermurals #socialrealism #FraserWilson #DiegoRivera

Summertime! 'Balls on the Beach,' 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). A leading Social Realist, Evergood also became one of the leading Modernists with compositions that bordered on magic realism. He distanced himself from political & social issues to figures more fanciful & free, with an almost childlike sweetness in his work.
Private collection.
#magicrealism #socialrealism #modernism #modernart #modernist #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #americanart

Summertime! 'Balls on the Beach,' 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). A leading Social Realist, Evergood also became one of the leading Modernists with compositions that bordered on magic realism. He distanced himself from political & social issues to figures more fanciful & free, with an almost childlike sweetness in his work.
Private collection.
#magicrealism #socialrealism #modernism #modernart #modernist #arthistory #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart #americanart

Finding his way... Philip Evergood (1901-1973), "Self Portrait with Divining Rod," 1954, oil on board, private collection. A Social Realist who also became one of the leading Modernists of the 20th century, Evergood was “a figurative painter when much of the art world placed greater value on abstraction.”
#modernart #magicrealism #figurativeart #portrait #socialrealism #modernism #midcentury #artcollector #artmuseum #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

Finding his way... Philip Evergood (1901-1973), "Self Portrait with Divining Rod," 1954, oil on board, private collection. A Social Realist who also became one of the leading Modernists of the 20th century, Evergood was “a figurative painter when much of the art world placed greater value on abstraction.”
#modernart #magicrealism #figurativeart #portrait #socialrealism #modernism #midcentury #artcollector #artmuseum #arthistory #artgallery #potterdayart

Spring has arrived, summer is nipping at its heels. It's "A Beautiful Morning," Philip Evergood (1901-1973), 1961. A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists. By the 1940s, he distanced himself from social issues to those more fanciful and free. Private collection.
#modernart #socialrealism #magicrealism #surrealism #artcollector #artgallery #artmuseum #potterdayart

He was a Social Realist at a time when the world was going abstract, yet he continued to suggest the enormous emotion of his subjects, saying, "I want to castigate the things I hate and paint monuments to what I feel is noble." Social commentary remained the backbone of his art.
'Man with Sprite,' Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981), ca. 1950 (I prefer to call it 'Enlightenment.') Private collection.
#artcollector #socialrealism #realism #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart #modernart

Afsky - Ofte jeg drømmer mig død

Cover by Danish painer H. A. Brendekilde

#afsky #blackmetal #coverart #socialrealism #vinyl

A leading Modernist of the 20th century, Philip Evergood combined abstraction & realism. In the 1930s his style & subjects also made him one of the leading Social Realists of the period. By the 1940s, Evergood distanced himself from political & social issues to works that were more fanciful and free.
"Girl in Garden," 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973.). Private collection.
#magicrealism #socialrealism #abstractart #modernart #artgallery #artmuseum #arthistory #potterdayart #artcollector

He created realism built of cold structures and isolated people. Hopper twisted the cityscape into a constructed landscape with elevated views, horizontal plains, and private, impenetrable lives. The Whitney exhibition is near-encyclopedic. https://hyperallergic.com/801406/edward-hoppers-views-of-isolation/?fbclid=IwAR1rqcPFl1L0pkKpqFI8dNk_AprITbqMSfcoRhtnC30LLAdNx7ygy3g_CMw
#modernart #museum #arthistory #socialrealism #realism #potterdayart #artcollector #realist

#RIP #RestInProtest Mike Hodges, legendary film-maker, director of Get Carter AND Flash Gordon
#Films
#SocialRealism
#SciFi
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/21/mike-hodges-sci-fi-get-carter-flash-gordon

RT @artisthopper@twitter.com

The Barber Shop, 1931 #socialrealism #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-hopper/the-barber-shop

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/artisthopper/status/1605003535862595584

POETRY. Started reading this new poetry collection last night. Woke up still thinking about this snippet, which I interpret to mean: Gotta build what you build to withstand the messy world full of diverse, hard-to-figure-out people, not a just-so world as you'd like it. And with that, tally ho.

#poetry #SocialRealism

Today I came across the art of Marcel Gromaire. Someone I'd never heard of before. Why haven't I heard of him before? Gobsmacking paintings like this one.
#art #Gromaire #SocialRealism

Traditionally, a symbol of renewal, rebirth, abundance, Evergood completed this work near the tail end of the Depression. "Woman with Sheaf," 1936, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). private collection. One of the leading modernists of the 20th Century, with styles combining abstraction and realism.
#arthistory #americanart #modernart #socialrealism #artmuseum

Traditionally, a symbol of renewal, rebirth, abundance, Evergood completed this work near the tail end of the Depression. "Woman with Sheaf," 1936, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). private collection. One of the leading modernists of the 20th Century, with styles combining abstraction and realism.
#arthistory #americanart #modernart #socialrealism #artmuseum

"En begravelse" (A Funeral), 1883 painting by Danish artist Frants Henningsen (1850-1908).

In SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark. Inventory number KMS1218.

#art #painting #funeral #Danish #artist #19thcentury #socialrealism