(Social) Realism: Tanzania

Tingatinga Art
Tingatinga art can be defined as painting on masonite using bicycle paint. Bicycle paint is a good medium to work in when making clear, vibrant colored paintings that contain sharp contrasts. Since the paint does not dry very fast, it requires that the artist first paints the background, letting the paint dry before working on the foreground design. This technique of letting the background dry, as well as the thick consistency of bicycle paint, are what make Tingatinga paintings so easy to interpret, since they display contours and clearly separated color surfaces.The term Tingatinga has been broadened and is now used to describe many different types of colorful paintings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingatinga
http://www.tingatinga.info/tingatingaart.html




Antony Jonas
http://www.afrum.com/
http://www.afrum.com/index.php?hash=1f577f420e8508f64efc448f8772b5bc&categ=gal&action=vypis&select=120
http://www.tingatinga.info/tingatingaart.html
























Katengo
http://www.afrum.com/
http://www.afrum.com/index.php?hash=1f577f420e8508f64efc448f8772b5bc&categ=gal&action=vypis&select=137
http://www.tingatinga.info/tingatingaart.html












Kalembo Fidelis
http://www.afrum.com/
http://www.afrum.com/index.php?hash=1f577f420e8508f64efc448f8772b5bc&categ=gal&action=vypis&select=136
http://www.tingatinga.info/tingatingaart.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: Afghanistan

Fareeha Ghezal Yousufzai
It's a tree so withered and broken that only a single scarred branch is still struggling heavenwards. Yet all life has not gone: a tiny leaf, green against the cerulean blue of the sky, stubbornly clings to a twig. For the circle of burka-clad women huddling around the forlorn trunk in the hot, dusty sunshine, it is a sign of hope.

The painting by Fareeha Ghezal Yousufzai that depicts this scene is part of "Make Art, Not War," the first-ever independent exhibition of works by female Afghan painters outside the strife-torn country (Ursula Sautter).

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1833941,00.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14840900@N08/2485657715/








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: Sri Lanka

Rohitha Yudagauwa
http://www.artsrilanka.org/online/rohithayudagauwa/01.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: Azerbaijan

Elmira Shahtakhtinskaya

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/shahtakhtinskaya_elmira_157/shahtakhtinskaya_elmira/shahtakhtinskaya_e_157a.html







Tahir Salahov

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/salahov.tahir-90/salahov.tahir/salahov_tahir.html











Khalida Safarova

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/safarova.khalida-80/safarova.khalida/safarova_80.html







Alakbar Rezaguliyev

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/rezaguliyev.alakbar-76/rezaguliyev.alakbar/rezaguliyev_76a.html



























Raida Mustafayeva

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/mustafayeva_raida_173/mustafayeva_raida/mustafayeva_r_173a.html







Akbar Behkalam

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/behkalam.akbar-26/behkalam.akbar/behkalam_akbar.html







Azim Azimzade

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/azimzade.azim-20/azimzade.azim/azimzade_azim.html



















Nadir Abdurrahmanov

http://www.azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/abdurrahmanov_nadir_95/abdurrahmanov_nadir/abdurrahmanov_95.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: Taiwan

Chen Cheng-po (1895 – 1947)
Chen Cheng-po (Chinese: 陳澄波, February 2, 1895 – March 25, 1947), was a well known Taiwanese painter. In 1926, his oil painting Street of Chiayi was featured in the seventh Empire Art Exhibition in Japan, which was the first time a Taiwanese artist's work could be displayed at the exhibition. Chen devoted his life to education and creation, and was greatly concerned about the development of humanist culture in Taiwan. He was not only devoted to the improvement of his own painting, but also to the promotion of the aesthetic education of the Taiwanese people. He was murdered as a result of the 228 Incident, a 1947 popular uprising in Taiwan which was brutally repressed by the Kuomintang (KMT).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Cheng-po
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Chen_Chengpo_1938.jpg
http://www.wincheer.com.tw/L-070.htm
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chen_Cheng-po
































Li Mei-shu (1902 - 1983)
Born in 1902 in Sanhsia, Taiwan, Li Mei-shu had developed an affection for drawing since early childhood. In pursuit of his dream of becoming a painter, Li left for Japan in 1928. In the March of 1929 he was admitted to the Tokyo School of Fine Arts where he concentrated on the study of such different schools as Classicism, Romanticism and Realism.

Shortly after his graduation from the art school in 1934, Li returned to his hometown, Sanhsia, to which he had a profound commitment. As a painter, Li used his paintbrushes to fulfill this commitment, manifesting his love of the people and nature on many a canvas. In the meantime, he was also active in promoting fine arts in Taiwan. As a result, Li, together with his fellow painters, founded the Taiyang Fine Arts Association, the first ever in Taiwan.

In addition, Li was appointed to a professorship of fine arts at Chinese Culture University as well as National College of Arts. He also held a chair at National Taiwan Normal University in 1975. Gifted and versatile artist as he was, Li received his first lesson in realism at the art school in Japan. And realism remained the principle he lived by as an artist for the rest of his life even though there were times when fauvism or abstractionism was the mainstream. Somehow realism was the only way which, as Li himself described, "could best serve my faith in depicting the true beauty of rural life in Taiwan." Persistent and determined as he was, Li Mei-shu has been thus regarded as the "Great Wall" in the art history of Taiwan.

http://www.limeishu.org/anglais/anglais.htm
http://www.geocities.jp/skytenky/1/sakua005.html
http://www.geocities.jp/skytenky/1/sakuc006.html
http://www.geocities.jp/skytenky/1/sakua034.html
http://www.geocities.jp/skytenky/1/sakua016.html
http://www.geocities.jp/skytenky/1/sakuc010.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: Israel

Yosl Bergner (1920)
Yosl Bergner (Hebrew: יוסל ברגנר) (born 1920) is an Israeli painter. Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna and grew up in Warsaw. With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation was formed in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm offered the League c16,500 square ks in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberleys.

Thus the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl immigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery Art School until the outbreak of War World II. He served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School. In Melbourne from 1937-48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomise modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, John Perceval and Arthur Boyd. Adrian Lawlor moved with his wife to a cottage at Warrandyte where they lived for 30 years. Bergner was a frequent visitor at this Warrandyte home. All the men socialised together. Bergner encouraged them to go beyond their traditional landscape style and he introduced a more radical concern for working families, thus having an important impact on Australian art.

Bergner may not have been prepared for the plight of many struggling Australians. Yet he felt a strong connection between the suffering of people everywhere, whether they were the Jews that he remembered from Europe, landless blacks in the heart of Australia or hungry children in inner urban Melbourne. He left Australia in 1948 and after two years of travelling and exhibiting in Paris, Montreal and New York, he settled in Israel. He lived in Safed until moving to Tel Aviv in 1957.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosl_Bergner
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/IMAGES/MED/71150.JPG
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artwar/images/artworks/art92132_loading-train_y-bergner_sml.jpg
http://nga.gov.au/federation/Medium/26200.jpg
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/yosl-bergner-australian-years.html
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Over the Ghetto Wall 1943



Aboriginals in Fitzroy 1941













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.

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