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social realism
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- Instance of
- art movement
- Subclass of
- realism
- Country
- Weimar Republic
- Image
- Orozco Mural Omniciencia 1925 Azulejos.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Grant Wood's magnum opus American Gothic, 1930, has become a widely known (and often parodied) icon of social realism.
Social realism is work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always uses a form of descriptive or critical realism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “social realism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.