Paul Ingbretson Talks about Politics and Art (AGAIN!) - No. 51

The legitimacy and value of the social commentary in painting

In response to Gabriel

QUESTIONS: Im curious about whats your opinion on less totalitarian ways of representing social reality (since you talked about mao, stalin, etc..).
There was in the late 19th century and early 20th a big movement of impressionist artists who took the social issues of their time to make works of art (for example; Ilya Repin and his famous painting of the Volga workers or Sorolla and his social realist paintings)
Later in the states we had the Ashcan School who also took the reality of working class people in the NY of the early XX century. I’m curious about what’s your opinion on taking that subject and using it to create a beautiful work of art GABRIEL