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social realism

or Social Realism

noun

  1. a style of painting, especially of the 1930s in the U.S., in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire.


social realism

noun

  1. the use of realist art, literature, etc as a medium for social or political comment
  2. another name for socialist realism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The Social Realism and Muralist Movements from artists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco worked with indigenous crafts.

Though the scenarios feel painfully, vividly real, this is not social realism—a form Ellison explicitly rejected.

But he struggled to fuse it with social realism, with which it is radically incompatible.

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