Saturday, September 25, 2010

(Social) Realism: Moldova Art




Mihai Grecu (1916 - 1998)

Mihai Grecu (November 22, 1916, Faraonivka - 1998, Chişinău) was a painter from Moldova.
http://www.arta.neonet.md/pictura/mgrecu/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Grecu















Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu (1920)
Born in Chisinau on October 28th 1920
http://www.arta.neonet.md/pictura/vrusu/en/















Aurel David (1935 - 1984)
18.06.1935, Chisinau - 30.06.1984, Chisinau
http://www.arta.neonet.md/pictura/adavid/en/
















World (Social) Realist Art (Index of Countries)
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(Social) Realism: North Korea art




Kim Chu-gyŏng (1902-1981)

A native of North Ch'ungch'ŏng Province, Kim graduated from the Tōkyō School of Fine Arts in 1928, and upon returning to Korea became one of the country's most prominent oil painters. Until the late 1930s, Kim experimented successfully with a variety of different styles. However, as illustrated by the images and an illustrated essay in a 1938 book published with his close friend, painter O Chi-ho, towards the end of the colonial period he found his own style in a special kind of Post-Impressionist mode: landscapes depicting the sky and clouds with heavy object colors, and flowers, trees, people in strong bright greens and/or violet. Some of the stylistic elements typical for Kim's work survived the post-Liberation era—he favored desolate landscapes that often seem almost geometrically calculated, and used a reduced palette of colors.
http://koreaweb.ws/nkart/xz9.html











Kim Man-hyŏng (1916-1984)
A native of Kaesŏng, Kim, like Yi K'wae-dae, studied oil painting at the Imperial Art Academy in Tokyo where he graduated in 1940. From 1937, he regularly displayed portraits and landscapes in the Korean national art exhibition (Sŏnjŏn), and during the last three years of the war was also involved in the production of propaganda war art for the Japanese army (such as magazine cover designs, posters, etc.). After Liberation, while still living in Seoul, Kim joined the Korean Artists Union and actively engaged in leftist politics.
http://koreaweb.ws/nkart/xz11.html











Han Sang-ik (1917-1997)
Born in 1917 near Hamhŭng in northern Korea, Han studied at the Imperial Art Academy in Tokyo and after the Korean War became professor at the P'yŏngyang University of Fine Arts. Han's works have appeared in North Korean magazines since the late 1950s. He was honored with the highest awards (such as "People's Artist") by the Kim regime, and together with Ch'oe Ch'ang-sŏng held a two-man exhibition in 1995 in P'yŏngyang's International Culture Center. Seascapes, beach and harbor scenes were his favored subject matters.
http://koreaweb.ws/nkart/xz13.html







Im Hyok
http://blogs.todayonline.com/forartssake/tag/mansudae-art-studio/








World (Social) Realist Art (Index of Countries)
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

(Social) Realism: Rwanda Art




Collin Sekajugo (1980)

A painter by profession, Sekajugo's own work explores how light, shadow, color and texture interacts to make his subject rise "off the canvas".
http://www.ivukaarts.com/artists/collin-sekajugo/
http://republicbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2009/05/reaching-out-gisimba-orphanage-silent.html















World (Social) Realist Art (Index of Countries)
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Monday, September 20, 2010

(Social) Realism: Montenegro Art




Ilija Šobajić (1876 - 1953)

http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/likovna_umjetnost/sobajic_ilija_d_radovanovic.html







Spiridon - Bocaric Spiro (1876 - 1941)
http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/likovna_umjetnost/spiro_bocaric.htm



















Gojko Berkuljan (1923-1989)
Gojko Berkuljan (1923-1989) belonged to the first generation of Montenegrin painters educated immediately after World War II in the Art School in Herceg Novi. In this period Berkuljan created under the influence of Milo Milunović and Peter Lubarda like some of his colleagues, but in the early fifties took his own way, which had many stages, ranging from "modern traditionalism" to abstraction. Regardless of the heterogeneous work, Berkuljan's inspiration was based primarily on Montenegrin scenery and epic. The largest number of sketches for thematic phases, the artist logically evolved during fifties. As he used to to say, he was interested in "the development of ideas and research, not just to one artistic expression, regardless how recognized or accepted it was.
http://www.mnmuseum.org/Projects_3.htm
http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/likovna_umjetnost/g_berkuljan/galerija.html




















World (Social) Realist Art (Index of Countries)
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Monday, September 13, 2010

(Social) Realism Themes: Music, Song and Dance




Rwanda




http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-realism-rwanda-art.html



Montenegro



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-realism-montenegro-art.html



Sweden




http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/04/social-realism-sweden.html



Dominican Republic



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-dominican-republic.html



Jamaica



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/06/social-realism-jamaica.html




Libya



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-realism-libya-art.html



United States



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/03/american-social-realism.html



Azerbaijan



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/06/social-realism-azerbaijan.html



Turkey



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/06/social-realism-turkey.html



Maldives



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/08/social-realism-maldives-art.html



Syria



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/04/social-realism-syria.html



Ireland



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/03/irish-social-realism.html



Japan



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-japan.html



Panama



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/08/social-realism-panama-art.html



Senegal



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-senegal.html



Chile



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-chile.html



Cyprus



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-cyprus.html



Paraguay



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/08/social-realism-paraguay-art.html



Slovenia



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/04/social-realism-slovenia.html



Brazil



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/04/social-realism-brazil.html




Yemen



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-realism-yemen-art.html







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).

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(Social) Realism Themes: Fishermen




Singapore




http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/06/social-realism-sri-lanka.html



Ireland



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/03/irish-social-realism.html


Myanmar {Burma}



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/07/social-realism-myanmarburma.html



Malta



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/08/social-realism-malta-art.html



Norway



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-norway.html



Singapore



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-singapore.html


Denmark



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/05/social-realism-denmark.html



United States



http://gaelart.blogspot.com/2010/03/american-social-realism.html




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).

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