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nmumm Social Qaiinrlind mnro lilru an uwuiivuiig miviv tutv III! WUJCVllVC outlook on life, "social realism" is a term identified with a regional movement that flourished in New York City during the 1930 and 40s. It is also the subject of a current exhibition at the Columbia Museum entitled City Folk. Yet, before we discuss this show, let's briefly look at the artist's interaction in the social context. The relationship between the artist and his social/political environment is not the easiest of questions to decipher. This is due primarily to the fact that such inflnpnrpc run tho oamKif f mm ? 11V111 sublime acceptance to harsh counter-reaction. We touched on this briefly when we discussed the National Sculpture show some weeks back. There the point was made that contemporary sculpture has fully accepted, utilized, and claimed for itself, the triumphs of 20th century technology. In an example such as this, Mi IK r?n MmBI^M aHKT KS3B?^&?^^sg Paul Campus' Tha GAMECOCK to th? atwdant rtawapapar of tho Untvarafcy of Sooth Cwoha and to puUWMd thiN ttmM waak on Monday*. WtdnMdtyi and Friday* during tha fad and apring aamaaaara and enca waafcty on Thuradaya during both wmmaf aaaalona whh tha axcaptton of unlvaralty hoUdaya and axaminatlou parioda. Opinion* axpraaaad In tha GAMECOCK aro thoaa of tha adhora and not thoaa of tha Unlvaralty of South Carottna. Tha UrWvacaMy of South Carolina la an aqual opportunity Inatttutkon. : Tha Board of 8tudant PubNcatlona and Uommunicatkons is the publisher of the Gamecock. The Student Media Office is the j parent org*ni?*tion of the Gamecock. j Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to the GAMECOCK. Bom 85131. Russell House. University of 8.C.. Columbia. 8.C. 29208. Subscription rates | are $5.50 per semester and $2 for the summer sessions. Third class postage paid at Columbia. 8.C. _ I realism social influences are obviously apparent due to the extent in which such sensibilities are embraced. It is also strikingly clear when artists respond in the opposite direction, that being rejection or dismav towards the statis-quo. Protests of social conditions have echoed through-out the history of art. One might recall Goya's "Disasters of War" or Daumier's "Third-Class Carriage", or even the novels of Dickens. It is easy to understand then, why such dismay and pessimism would have submerged in New York after the Stock Market crash of 1929, manifesting itself in a style loosely termed "social realism." This era is the subject of a new show currently on display at the Columbia Museum of Art entitled, City Folk. City Folk, organized by the Columbia Museum, is a pleasing display of primarily paintings that HB| * jut ' m^r> Pi t |'r* f &"Vf >vJ j^x ,jbBBBBb - 3. - * '> . t f i' ><*'*' '>4* ' ^ ^ r " ^ 'Playground' L I Ben Shahi effectively capture the mood of a to the past gl< country in a traumatic and dif- allegorical th< ficult period. Miller's "Ni Perhaps the foremost "social Window" ha realist", Ben Shahn, is here before a skyl represented by two intriguing smoke stacks works, "Sunday Morning" and has "Dante "The Clinic." Square", t onlookers. "The Clinic" is a biting com- City Folk is mentary on the social classes, and speaks wherein two shabbily clothed iirnmnn rliiFi rf nr VAiiVH, u well ItU U y IUC11 UII" vironment, sit below a sign with HHHOMPii the question, "Do I Deserve Prenatal Care ? " The most stunning visual work in the show is a tempra by Paul Campus entitled "Playground." Here the city is depicted as a series of walls that speminolv shut nnp nff from "the real world." In the windows of distant buildings, ~acks?ns ghoulish faces peer out like ^ rfoq strange animals in the (urban) R.E.O. Sp jungle. 3 Parl,amar In the foreground, one man Foreigner seduces a woman, others find a ^ Jacksons cubical for gaming, and still n Sealj another climbs the wire fence as if 10 escape. Yet, not all of the works are so obviously political, even Campus ? wi,,anp PfV has a wonderfully sensitive MpiKsa m drawing in "Study for Sleeping 5 Pat Methe ?y* 6 Single Bull "Passing Skyline" is another 8 Bob Seege interesting work. This watercolor 9 Bob Seege by Reginald Marsh depicts the 11 Bob See9e arrival of Greta Garbo on the deck 1 5 Aerosmith of an ocean liner. His illusionistic lrf>9lrnonl nf thn nnr Q v> vMVAJitvilV tllV pnv/iv/gl apll^lO, and his play with the edges of the work as interior planes is quite GsmOgPJ inventive. 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