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Social Realism (sh)




Trend in U.S. art, originating งใ 1930, toward treating themes of social protest
poverty, political corruption, labour-management conflict
in a naturalistic manner.

The movement was stimulated in part by the Ash Can school, the Great Depression, and the New Deal's arts patronage programs, including the WPA Federal Art Project. Works in this vein include Ben Shahn's Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1931-32) and William Gropper's The Senate (1935).