Talk:Social realism

Social Realism, is not a style nor a form it is a context or content of an art work. SR is also a form of "sociopolitical commentary" using art works as the vehicle. Social Realists believed that art is not only for decoration but can also be used as an instrument of attack and defense against an enemy. How... enlightening. 02:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I find very arguable that "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso is a social realist painter, because I never read in any place this. User:Mistico

Literary Social Realism

I think this article needs to be modified to include more of the literary aspect of social realism, with such authors as Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Anzia Yezierska. Their contributions were not insignificant.

Personal Bias

"Undistorted by personal bias ..."

Since when is any artform undistorted by personal bias? Social Realist art reflects personal bias by subject choice, composition, omission and inclusion of details, and as is the case with some Orientalists, absolute fabrication. Perhaps it should be clarified that this is an ideal not a fact of social realism?

Social realism vs. socialist realism

At the top of the article it is written "not to be confused with socialist realism", while the following article is one huge confusion with socialist realism. Social realism is not the officially endorsed state art of the Soviet Union and its sattelites; this is socialIST realism. This article is about socialist realism, and there is already an article about that subject on WP.