Wednesday, June 30, 2010

(Social) Realism: Jamaica



Albert Huie (1920 - 2010)

Albert Huie (born Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, December 31, 1920 - died Baltimore, Maryland, January 31, 2010) was a Jamaican painter.

Huie moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old; in the 1930s he became part of the "Institute Group" at the Institute of Jamaica, where he received his first formal training, with Koren der Harootian. In the early 1940s he worked as an assistant to Edna Manley while she taught at Kingston's Junior Centre. Further study followed, at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Ontario College of Art, before his return to Jamaica. In 1950 he was one of the founding tutors of the Jamaica School of Art and Crafts. Huie exhibited around the United States and Jamaica, and later in his career settled in the United States. On National Heroes Day in 2009 he was honored by the Jamaican Embassy for his contributions to the Jamaican community in and around Washington, D.C.

As a painter, Huie was best known for his landscape and genre work, though he often painted portraits as well. Some of his pieces expressed sociopolitical and nationalist themes, and many of his early paintings related in some way to manual labor. Stylistically, his early work was somewhat naive; his later paintings showed the influence of post-Impressionism, along with elements of art deco and Mexican mural painting. He generally painted in oils, but sometimes used acrylics instead. His paintings hang in the National Gallery of Jamaica, among other collections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Huie
http://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/remembering-albert-huie-1920-2010/

http://arte-lap.lacoctelera.net/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=448A3ECFBD0024DDED0CED573D959F01
















Osmond Watson (1934 - 2005)

Osmond Watson (born June 13, 1934 - died November 15, 2005) was a Jamaican painter and sculptor. Born in Kingston, Watson attended art classes at the Junior Centre of the Institute of Jamaica from 1948 until 1952; from that year until 1958 he attended the Jamaica School of Art in Kingston. He began exhibiting, with some success, in his home country, but decided to go to London in 1962 for further study at St Martin's School of Art; there he remained until 1965, becoming acquainted as well with the collections of the British Museum. His style changed somewhat after his return from England; his mature work was marked by the influence of African art, particularly of the Yoruba people, and cubism. Much of his subject matter was drawn from Jamaican society, including the Junkanoo festival and the Rastafari movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmond_Watson
http://www.petrinearcher.com/node/90
http://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/isaac-mendes-belisario-1795-1849/

























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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Art and the World’s Peoples



Global Database of Painting and Drawing


We have been poor for hundreds of years, even thousands of years, and they are living in their fancy resorts and mansions

This quote from one of the ‘Red Shirt’ protestors in the recent demonstrations in Thailand was an example of the process known there ‘as ta sawang, or a ‘brightening of the eyes’ – an awakening, a realization of a truth they had not recognized’ (International Herald Tribune 21 May 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22thai.html).

It was also journalism which would brighten the eyes of the artist John Sloan, a member of the American Ash Can group of realist painting in the early 1900s. According to David E. Shi in Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture 1850-1920, journalism ‘led them to see life up close, as an immense sprawling, kaleidoscopic affair, often sordid and ugly, but always interesting’. Sloan believed that ‘his journalistic work alerted him to the beauty in commonplace things and people.’

Another well known artist, the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats, started his career by making drawings for various magazines around the same time. In Jack B. Yeats: A Biography, Hilary Pyle writes: ‘The strong realism, the enjoyment of the ridiculous and of fantasy, and the dry humour, not always obvious, in these Punch drawings, all originated in a deep sympathy with humanity, and produced in his last paintings great works of art.’

This interest in life - people and their environment - by visual artists took on a new meaning as unidealised scenes of modern life took over from historical, mythological, and religious subjects. The growing movement towards Realism began in France in the 1850s with Courbet’s belief in objective reality as a basis for art, rebelling against the exaggerated emotionalism of the Romantic Movement. Following in the path of Courbet, the Impressionists also set out ‘to be true to nature’ and went out into the countryside to find subjects for their art.

Since these earlier, heady days of Realism many artists have expanded the variety of forms, content and themes of art concerned to show economic hardship, social and racial injustice, and political struggle or else to simply try and understand our relationship with the natural and built environment. As Modernism became the dominant force in the art world in the twentieth century many of its differing forms were adopted around the world in the pursuit of a socially-based art. All over the world today there is art being made by artists reflecting local and international themes following in the tradition founded by Courbet. Examples of such art can be seen by clicking on the list of countries at http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/04/social-realism-art-country-list.html. Countries mentioned below will refer to this list.

Development of Different Forms

From the middle of the nineteenth century socially-based art took on many forms from Naturalism (accurate and precise details, and portraying things as they are) to Realism (not necessarily depicted exactly as they are in shape, colour, tone, etc.).

With the arrival of Modernism on the art scene some artists used Impressionism (emphasis on light in its changing qualities) [Spain, Czech Republic] while others used Expressionism (distortion for emotional effect) [Germany, Thailand, Israel] as the basis for their art.

Art that specifically addressed social issues, called Social Realism, became very popular in the 1930s [USA]. Since then other forms such as Naive Art [Cambodia], Super Realism [Iran] and even some elements of Cubism [Philippines] and Abstract art [Iraq] have appeared. Local folk art traditions have also had a major influence in some parts of the world today [Singapore, Palestinian Territory, Tunisia, Syria, Vietnam].

Content: Common Themes

Workers

The depiction of agricultural workers in the form of peasants and farmers was one of the early themes of Realist art as artists left the studio to paint en plein air [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air] [Peru, Cuba, United Kingdom, Finland, Netherlands, France].

Industrial workers are a common theme [Mongolia, Denmark, Bulgaria, Albania, Egypt, Australia, Germany, Ireland, USA, Azerbaijan] along with craft workers [Peru, Denmark] and fishermen [Denmark, Norway, France].

Images of work also covered themes from building power stations [Ireland, USA, China], markets [Haiti, Singapore, Iraq, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Latvia, Lithuania, Algeria, Armenia, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Russia], women working [Taiwan, Kenya, Cuba, Cyprus, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Estonia, Norway, Syria, Sweden, Brazil, Pakistan], to low paid jobs [Zambia].

Women and children

Many artists depicted women in oppressive situations, women reading [Iran, Azerbaijan], women with guns [Albania, Serbia, Palestinian Territory, Vietnam, Belarus], and children [Belgium].

Social and political themes

Many themes are covered from poverty at home [Romania, Armenia, Argentina, Ireland, Russia], migration and evictions [United Kingdom, Guatemala, Ukraine, Belgium, Algeria, Ireland], poverty, prison, disease, hunger, death [Uruguay, Switzerland, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Hungary, Venezuela, Spain, Ireland, Russia], Unemployment [ Argentina, USA], Abortion [Portugal], torture, death, political repression [Cambodia, Thailand, Kenya, South Africa, South Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, USA], War [Canada, Austria, Ireland]; Demonstrations and strikes [United Kingdom, Ghana, Nicaragua, South Korea, Lithuania, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Argentina, Ireland, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, USA]; political activism and meetings [Denmark, Albania, South Africa, Lithuania, France, Democratic Republic of Congo, USA]; civil war, revolution and executions [Italy, Ireland, Russia, Mexico, USA] and colonialism [France, Spain].

Culture

Cultural themes include: the role of the artist [Mongolia, Albania]; music and dance [Sweden, Dominican Republic, Senegal, Japan, Cyprus, Chile, Syria, Brazil, Slovenia, Ireland, USA, Azerbaijan]; Dress [New Zealand, Morocco, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Spain, Azerbaijan]; bars and cafes [Poland, Australia, Germany, Ireland, USA]; boxing and wrestling [Ireland, USA, Azerbaijan]; native peoples [New Zealand, Israel]; and murals [Chile, Croatia, Columbia, Mexico].

Environment

The depiction of the natural and built environment covers: landscapes [Bosnia, Iceland, Norway, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Finland, Brazil, Czech Republic, Greece], seascapes [Spain, USA] and cityscapes [Nigeria, USA].

From all of the above discussion of social and political themes it can be seen that many artists the world over choose to involve themselves in the life and debates of their country. In the words of the painter Paraskeva Clark (1898-1986) [Canada]:

'Those who give their lives, their knowledge and their time to social struggle have the right to expect great help from the artist. And I cannot imagine a more inspiring role than that which the artist is asked to play for the defence and advancement of civilization.'

(Anne Newlands Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000. Firefly Books Ltd. (2000) pp. 74)





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Monday, June 28, 2010

(Social) Realism: Costa Rica




Francisco Amighetti (1907 - 1998)

Francisco Amighetti was born June 1, 1907, in San Jose, Costa Rica. He attended the main high school for boys in San Jose called the Liceo de Coasta Rica. Here, his artistic talent became apparent, and his art teachers encouraged him to enroll in the Academia de Bella Artes. At the institute, directed by Spanish painter Tomas Povedano, he studied drawing and painting, and soon began to gain recognition through his cartoons published in “Repertorio Americano”.

In the 1930s he and other artists sucb as Zuniga, de la Cruz, Zeledon and Chacon all rebelled against their traditional artistic training, abandoning classical European schools for revolutionary ones such as Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. They began exploring the printmaking techniques of leading artists in these fields and produced a portfolio of xylographs by Costa Rican artists, the first of its kind, in 1934.

Though artistic opportunities were scarce in Costa Rica, Amighetti chose to remain there, unlike many of his contemporaries. He continued to perfect his technique in painting, drawing, and printmaking, eventually traveling throughout Europe, Asia, and America to show his work, which by the 1950s had gained international attention. Amighetti continued to work until his death in 1998.

http://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/48/Amighetti/Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Amighetti
http://www.ticoclub.com/cpframgho.htm
http://poeticas.es/?p=475





























Jorge Gallardo (1924 - 2002)
Jorge Gallardo (December 12, 1924 - April 4, 2002) was a Costa Rican painter and poet. Gallardo's works are among the most important art collections of the Government of Costa Rica as well as many individuals, both domestic and foreign. His art is an irreverent mix in which he uses an impeccable use of color, which many have considered flat and without complexities. He painted many colorful pictures displaying topics such as agriculture in Costa Rica and the working people on landscapes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Gallardo
http://www.galeriavalanti.com/pages/a_jgallardo_eng.htm























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(Social) Realism: Puerto Rico




Francisco Oller (1833-1917)

Francisco Oller is one of the masters of Puerto Rican art, whose portraits tell the stories of rural Puerto Rican life in the 19th century. Oller was the born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico on June 17, 1833. He began painting early, at age 11, under the tutelage of Juan Cleto Noa who ran a studio in San Juan. By the time he was 15, Oller showed such artistic promise that the governor of Puerto Rico thought he should study in Italy. Oller’s mother rejected the invitation, fearing that her son was too young to make such a long trip.

At 18, Oller finally traveled to Europe. This time it was not to Italy, but to Spain, where the young painter studied at the Royal Academy of San Fernando. From there, he studied at the Louvre in Paris. His instructor was Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, a painter who led the realism genre of paiting. Gustave Courbe was interested in social issues, particulary those that related to peasant farming. This would also come to influence Oller’s work. Throughout his lifetime, Oller was highly critical of slavery and colonialism. By 1859, Oller was exhibiting next to renowned artists like Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Oller returned to Puerto Rico, where he opened the Free Academy of Art of Puerto Rico. Oller died in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 17, 1917. His works still graces the walls of museums around the world, including the Louvre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Oller
http://auca150art.com/FranciscoOller.aspx
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/25NJArts.html?_r=1
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Oller
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordero.jpg
http://www.puertoricanpainter.com/history_of_puertoricanpainter.htm




















Ramón Frade (1875–1954)

Ramón Frade (1875–1954) was one of Puerto Rico's most renowned visual artist and architects. His realist style of painting captured the life of the typical Puerto Rican in the twentieth century.

Frade painted portrayals of the life of the Puerto Rican campesinos (country people). What is considered as his masterwork, El Pan Nuestro de Cada Dia (our Daily Bread) (1905), represents a "jibaro" farmer carrying plantains. In his painting he shows what is an old barefooted man who is poor but proud, serious, dignified, clean. This "jibaro" is supposed to represent Puerto Rico at the beginning of the century. Other works by Frade include: La Planchadora (The ironing lady) (1948), El Niño Campesino (the country child), Ensenada, La Poza, Reverie, and La Inmaculada (The Immaculate) and many others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Frade
http://www.galenusrevista.com/Arte-en-puerto-rico
http://www.muralmaster.org/writings/AmerProp/index.html

http://www.puertoricanpainter.com/history_of_puertoricanpainter.htm












Rafael Tufiño Figueroa (1922 – 2008)

Rafael Tufiño Figueroa (1922 – March 13, 2008) was a Puerto Rican painter, printmaker and cultural figure in Puerto Rico, known locally as the "Painter of the People". Rafael Tufiño was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age 10, he moved with his grandmother to Puerto Rico where he started painting. He served in the Army Signal Corps in Panama during World War II, and afterwards studied art in Mexico at the Academia de San Carlos. He moved to New York in 1956 to continue his studies after receiving a Guggenheim fellowship. He spent most of his later life traveling between Puerto Rico and New York.

Rafael Tufiño's painting included portraits, landscapes and images of Puerto Rico daily life. His work is among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Galería Nacional in Puerto Rico, and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico. During the 1950s, he was part of the "Generación de los Cincuentas" (the Generation of the Fifties), a group of artists who tried to create a new artistic style and aesthetic identity for Puerto Rico.

Tufiño dedicated his later life to foster art and related studies in Puerto Rican barrios and communities, such as founding a workshop and art cooperative named Taller Boricua in 1970 and advocating for the creation of El Museo del Barrio, both in East Harlem. Until 1963, he contributed to the Puerto Rico Department of Public Instruction (now the Department of Education) various paintings, posters, and advertisements to help bring government-sponsored literacy and hygiene programs to poor and illiterate communities in Puerto Rico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Tufi%C3%B1o
http://www.puertoricanpainter.com/history_of_puertoricanpainter.htm
http://ortizfeliciano.blogspot.com/2009/02/que-viva-la-musica-boricua.html
http://grabados.org/PRprints/wkspg.htm
http://www.puertoricanposters.com/posters/60
http://www.tranceliquido.com/2008/03/se-nos-fue-uno-de-nuestros-maestros-rafael-tufino/
http://www.justinorodriguez.com/category/blog/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=0B34C6F2F19BEE7D
http://www.jkrweb.com/art/artists.php




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Sunday, June 27, 2010

(Social) Realism: Sudan




Rashid Diab (1957)

Born in 1957, Diab was raised in Wad Medani, on the banks of the Blue Nile in Sudan. He graduated with honors from the Khartoum College of Fine Art. He moved to Madrid where he studied art at the Complutensa University, under a scholarship. Diab received his doctorate degree in painting from the university in 1991, and joined the faculty as an art teacher until 1999.

"Since I was a small child, I have loved to travel. I always wanted to be somewhere discovering new places, different types of life and other people. I constantly thought of how I could create a real and intimate relationship with distance and space. Why do things have specific dimensions and a certain shape at a certain time? These questions became an obsession with the only solution being to paint and continue paint,'' he said. For the 52-year-old artist, painting is a necessity. ``I know that the desire to paint is something within me part of my inner self, part of my subconscious. As time passed, this need to paint and draw transformed itself into something like a biological instinct, which has strengthened my relationship with the world around me,'' he said. It was in Spain, when he started to appreciate his Sudanese heritage.

http://artforarabs.blogspot.com/2009/01/rashid-diab.html
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=43376
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Friday, June 25, 2010

(Social) Realism: Turkey



Ahmet Ziya Akbulut (1869 - 1938)

Ahmet Ziya Akbulut (d. 1869; İstanbul - ö. 1938), Türkoğlutürk ressam. Harbiye'den 1887 yılında mezun oldu. İlk sanat zevkini Kuleli Askeri Lisesi'nde Osman Nuri Paşa 'dan, Harbiye'de ise Hoca Ali Rıza Beyden aldı. Mezuniyetinden sonra Erkan-ı Harbiye resimhanesine atanarak 1894 yılına kadar burada çalıştı. Bu tarihte yüzbaşılığa yükselince Osman Nuri Paşa 'ya yardımcı olarak Kuleli Askeri Lisesi'ne atandı. 1894 yılında Ameli Menazır ve 1896 yılında Usulu Ameliye-i Fenni Menazır adlı eserleri yayınlandı.
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Hikmet Onat (1882 - 1977)
Hikmet Onat, (d. 1882 İstanbul - ö. 1977 İstanbul), Türk ressam. Empresyonist akımın Türkiye'deki devamcılarından olan Hikmet Onat, Türk resim tarihinin büyük ustalarındandır. Bir asra yaklaşan yaşamında ancak bir kere sergi açabildi. İlk öğreniminden sonra, Heybeliada Deniz Harp Okulu'nu 1903 yılında bitirdi. Bir süre güverte subayı olarak görev yaptı. Ruhi Arel ile birlikte Sanayi-i Nefise Mekteb-i Alisi’nde resim derslerine devam etti. Bahriye fotoğrafçısı Ali Sami Bey'in yanında çalıştı. Bahriye'den ayrılarak 1905 yılında İstanbul Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi'ne girdi (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi). 1908’de Osmanlı Ressamlar Cemiyeti ve Güzel Sanatlar Birliği’nin kurucuları arasında yer alarak sergilerine katıldı. Mezuniyetinden sonra, 1910 yılında açılan Avrupa sınavlarını kazandı, burslu olarak Paris’e gitti. Paris Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi'nde Fernaed Cormon Atölyesi'nde dört yıl çalıştı. I. Dünya Savaşı'nın çıkması üzerine yurda döndü ve Mekteb-i Sultani’de (Galatasaray Lisesi) resim öğretmenliği görevine başladı. Müdür Halil Ethem’in isteği üzerine Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi’ne geçti. Varnia Zarzecki’nin yerine hazırlık sınıfı hocalığına, ardından da atölye şefliğine atandı.
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikmet_Onat
http://www.karakutu.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10740&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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Nuri İyem (1915-2005)
1915 yılında İstanbul'da doğan sanatçı, resme küçük yaşlarda duvarlara kömür kalemle yaptığı çizimlerle başladı. Sağlık memuru olan babasının görevi dolayısıyla çocukluğunu Anadolu'nun farklı şehirleri dolaşarak geçirdi. İlkokulu Mardin'de bitiren sanatçı ortaokulda İstanbul'a geldi. Önce Vefa ardından da Pertevniyal Lisesine kaydoldu. Resim tutkusu da bu yıllarda başladı. Hatta resim aşkı yüzünden derslerden geri kalan sanatçı, ailesinin onun doktor olmasını istemesine rağmen en sonunda Akademiye kaydoldu. Yaptığı çalışmaları, o yılların en önemli sanat etkinliği olan Galatasaray sergilerinde, resimlerini hayranlıkla izlediği Nazmi Ziya'ya göstermiş ve onun teşvikini de aldıktan sonra hiç duraksamadan kaydını yaptırıp derslere başlamıştı. Devrin diğer büyük ressamları gibi Nazmi Ziya, Hikmet Onat, Çallı ve Levy'nin öğrencisi olan genç ressam, aynı zamanda Feyhaman Duran, Namık İsmail gibi diğer akademi hocalarının fikirlerinden yararlanmaktan geri kalmadı ve Sanat Tarihi, Estetik ve Mitoloji dersleri veren Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar'ın, önünde açtığı geniş ufukla entellektüel kimliğini buldu.
http://eskizdefteri.net/nuri-iyem-ve-eserleri-t1303.html
http://www.webhatti.com/sanat/583230-nuri-iyem-nuri-iyem-kimdir.html



























Selim Turan (1915 - 1994)
Selim Turan (d. 1915 İstanbul - ö. 1994 Paris ) Türk ressam, heykeltıraş İlkokulu İstanbul’da Ali Avni Çelebi ve Malik Aksel’in öğrencisi olarak bitirdikten sonra Galatasaray Lisesi’nde Cihat Burak ve Avni Arbaş’la tanıştı. Resim ile ciddi anlamda tanışması Malik Aksel’den aldığı resim dersleri ile oldu. Babasının da resme ilgi duyması ile birlikte, şu anda Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi olan İstanbul Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Resim Bölümü’ne 1915 yılında girdi. Resim derslerini Nazmi Ziya Güran, Feyhaman Duran, Leopold Levy ve Zeki Kocamemi’den alan Turan, , İsmail Hakkı Altunbezer, Necmettin Okyay ve Kamil Akdik’ten Türk süsleme sanatları ve hat dersi aldı. 1938 yılında Akadademi’den mezun olduktan sonra 1939 yılında resim öğretmeni olarak Üsküdar'daki ortaokullarda ve Moda Kız Sanat Okulu’nda çalıştı. Bir taraftan da Akademi’de ki atölyelerde ve Topkapı Sarayı’nda Minyatür üzerine de çalışmalar yaptı. 1940 yılında açılan Yüksek Resim Bölümü’ne Nuri İyem, Turgut Atalay, Ferruh Başağa, Agop Arad, Avni Arbaş, Mümtaz Yener, Fethi Karakaş ve Haşmet Akal ile birlikte devam etti. Bir yıl sonra aralarına Abidin Dino’nun da katlımıyla "Toplumsal Gerçekçi" anlayış gözetilerek Yeniler Grubu’nun kurucuları arasında yer aldı. 1941 yılında Halkevleri aracılığıyla düzenlenen yurt gezilerine katılarak ; bu gezilerin 10. yıl sergisinde birincilik ödülü aldı.
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_Turan
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosya:S._Turan_Sar%C4%B1k%C4%B1z_Efsanesi.jpg
http://www.balimuzayede.com/2010-haziran-muzayedesi/?page=5
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Avni Arbaş (1919 – 2003)
Avni Arbaş (1919 – October 16, 2003) was a Turkish artist. Arbaş was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He is best known for his paintings of scenes from daily life in Turkey, the Turkish War of Independence, the Bosphorus, fishermen, horses and nature. He died of cancer in İzmir in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avni_Arba%C5%9F
http://www.baktabul.net/ressamlar/169749-avni-arbas-kimdir-avni-arbas-hayati-avni-arbas-biyografi.html
http://www.etnografya-galerisi.com/TR/koleksiyon/Objektler/TRK-S-0001.html
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Neşet Günal, (1923 - 2002)
Neşet Günal, (d. 1923 Nevşehir ö. 2002 ) Türk ressam ve öğretim üyesi İlk öğrenimini Şereflikoçhisar’da, orta öğrenimini ise Nevşehir’de tamamladı. Nevşehir Belediyesi’nin bursu ile 1939 yılında, sınavlarını kazanarak girdiği ; şimdiki adı Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi’nden Leopold Levy’nin öğrencisi olarak 1946’da birincilikle mezun oldu. Akademiden mezun olduktan sonra, iki yıl Ankara Devlet Tiyatroları’nda Dekoratör olarak çalıştı. 1946 yılında UNESCO’nun Paris’te düzenlediği Modern Sanat konulu sergide, katılan Türk sanatçılar arasında yer aldı. 1948’de devlet bursu ile Paris’te “Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux Arts”da Fresk uzmanlık öğrenimi gördü. Resim Çalışmalarını Fernand Léger Atölyesi’nde sürdürürken; Fransa, İtalya, ve İspanya’da inceleme gezileri yaptı. Rahatsızlığı nedeniyle üç yıl değişik hastahanelerde tedavi gören sanatçı 1954 yılında yurda döndü. İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nde asistan oldu.

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne%C5%9Fet_G%C3%BCnal
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/56385/648/neset-gunal-ode-to-earth-homage-to-jf-millet.html
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=B67AA8A393714FD57FD109437F239853
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World (Social) Realist Art (Index of Countries)
This blog page is part of an ongoing project by artist and part-time lecturer Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin (http://gaelart.net/) to explore Realist / Social Realist art from around the world. The term Realism is used in its broadest sense to include 19th century Realism and Naturalism as well as 20th century Impressionism (which after all was following in the path of Courbet and Millet). Social Realism covers art that seeks to examine the living and working conditions of ordinary people (examples include German Expressionism, American Ashcan School and the Mexican Muralists).

Click here for (Social) Realist Art Definitions, World (Social) Realism and Global Solidarity, Art and Politics, Social Realism in history and Country Index.

Suggestions for appropriate artists from around the world welcome to caoimhghin@yahoo.com.