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

Other Words From

• social realist noun

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

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