Social Realism
191 artworks to study social realism techniques

SONG DA HYDROELECTRIC
Tran Van Can

Police raid
George Pemba (1981)

Belly Dancers
Nuri Iyem

Courtyard with Washing
John Bratby (1956)

Handball
Ben Shahn (1939)

The return of the penitent
Luke Fildes (1879)

Cross
Sue Coe

Commotion
Philip Evergood (1942)

Irrigation
Tran Van Can

Ambassadors of hunger
Pellizza da Volpedo (1892)

The Fourth State
Pellizza da Volpedo (1901)

Old Xhosa woman
George Pemba (1945)

Caffe Greco
Renato Guttuso (1976)

House over the Bridge
Diego Rivera (1909)

Washerwomen
Gerard Sekoto

A Sower of the Field on a Sunny Spring Day at Brendekilde Church
Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1914)

Kathelp-us
Sue Coe

Trek
George Pemba (1975)

The audience
George Pemba (1960)

Stream of people
Pellizza da Volpedo (1896)

Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Edward Hopper (1934)

Cement Factory
Maria Stolarova (1987)

Happy Children
Philip Evergood (1946)

HUSBAND AND WIFE
Gerard Sekoto (1952)

Xhosa woman smoking a pipe
George Pemba (1945)

The Demonstration
Emmanuel Zairis

Loads with a crane barge on the Seine
Alekos Kontopoulos (1932)

Mardin
Nuri Iyem

Study for a Male Head
SM Sultan (1956)

Table for Ladies
Edward Hopper (1930)

Outside the Shop
Gerard Sekoto

The activist
George Pemba (1992)

Industrial Landscape
Maria Stolarova

Mill
Sue Coe

Lenin in 1922
Diego Rivera

Goodnight to Dad
Nuri Iyem (1977)

Portrait of a young man
George Pemba (1950)

La Familia De Juanito Laguna
Antonio Berni

The Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect
Diego Rivera (1928)

Untitled Portrait
Nuri Iyem (1996)

Female Militia in the Sea 1960
Tran Van Can

Mary
Will Barnet (1936)

The Widower
Luke Fildes (1875)

Kat
Sue Coe

Night Scene in Avila
Diego Rivera (1907)

Peasant Girl
Nuri Iyem

The Child Mother
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1936)

Gypsies, Caravan and Pony
Laura Knight

The Duet
Luke Fildes (1927)

Colhedores de Café
Candido Portinari (1935)

Three Men
Ben Shahn

The Four Prosecutors - Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Ben Shahn (1932)

Idle Hands
Will Barnet (1935)

Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
Laura Knight (1943)

Soko Majoka (Sixpence a Door)
Gerard Sekoto (1947)

A neighbour’s gift
George Pemba (1980)

Sonntag
Mario Comensoli (1954)

Four Piece Orchestra
Ben Shahn

Jewish tailor
Will Barnet (1938)

The procession
Pellizza da Volpedo (1894)

Forgotten Man
Jon Mcnaughton (2010)

The Mathematician
Diego Rivera (1918)

Self Portrait
Philip Evergood (1960)

O Mestiço
Candido Portinari (1934)

Negro: U.S.A.
Charles Wilbert White (1949)

THE VISITOR EASTWOOD
Gerard Sekoto (1947)

Winter
Jose Clemente Orozco (1932)

The remnants of an army, Jellalabad, January 13, 1842
Elizabeth Thompson (1879)

Broom Crew (From The Garden Party)
Barrington Watson (1976)

Breton Girl
Diego Rivera (1910)

New Market Square in Vitoria
Carlos Saenz de Tejada

Corporal J. M. Robins, Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Laura Knight (1941)

No Work
George Pemba (1948)

The Young Mother
Philip Guston (1944)

Homeless
George Pemba (1973)

Portrait of myself as a young boy
Ben Shahn (1943)

One Nation Under Socialism
Jon Mcnaughton

the Empty Chair
Luke Fildes (1870)

Clinic
George Pemba (1974)

Portrait of Present Day Mexico
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1932)

Mother with baby
George Pemba (1989)

Mural Studio at the RCA
John Bratby (1954)

The Soccer Players
Gerard Sekoto (1939)

City Child (Air in the City No. 2)
Will Barnet (1938)

The Revolutionary
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1957)

Devotee
SM Sultan

Horse and Cart. Sophiatown
Gerard Sekoto (1940)

Obama Forign Policy
Jon Mcnaughton

Filipino Struggles Through History
Botong Francisco (1964)

Ataturk
Nuri Iyem (1999)

Portrait of a man in traditional dress
George Pemba (1950)

Gadanheiro
Julio Pomar (1945)

Étude pour la peinture murale du Jersey Homestead
Ben Shahn (1936)

Indaba
Gerard Sekoto

Fur coat
Sue Coe

Workers Houses, Flushing Bay
Philip Evergood (1945)

French Workers
Ben Shahn (1942)

A Cup of Tea
Philip Evergood (1946)

A Chapel-of-Ease
Elizabeth Thompson

Basoth woman with headdress
George Pemba (1944)

Xhosa mother and child
George Pemba (1983)

May Day Procession in Moscow
Diego Rivera (1956)

Select
Sue Coe

Pennsylvania Coal Town
Edward Hopper (1947)

Knocking off the Fork
Oliver Kilbourn (1975)

Portrait of Calliope
Alekos Kontopoulos

Untitled Nu
Nuri Iyem (1951)

Paisagem de Brodósqui
Candido Portinari (1940)

Manifestacion, (Demonstration)
Antonio Berni (1934)

Young boy with a bowl and spoon
George Pemba (1947)

Jujuy
Antonio Berni (1937)

Cyclists in Sophiatown
Gerard Sekoto (1942)

Paying tribute to the chief
George Pemba (1959)

Conversation
Barrington Watson (1981)

VILLAGE GOSSIP
Gerard Sekoto (1946)

Miliziano a riposo (ritratto di Antonello Trombadori)
Renato Guttuso (1937)

Xhosa maiden
George Pemba (1957)

First Mass at Limasawa
Botong Francisco (1965)

Sir Norman Washington Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
Barrington Watson (1900)

Little Joe
Will Barnet (1935)

End of Shift
Oliver Kilbourn (1941)

La Era (The Threshing Floor) 1904 (oil on canvas)
Diego Rivera (1904)

Loading sheep
Sue Coe

Market in La Cuesta de San Vicente - Vitoria
Carlos Saenz de Tejada

Men in a Ditch
Will Barnet (1936)

Amado de la Cueva
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1920)

Out of Many One People
Barrington Watson (1962)

Summer Evening
Edward Hopper (1947)

The Outskirts of Paris
Diego Rivera (1918)

Girl with firewood
George Pemba (1957)

The prodigal son
George Pemba (1952)

Untitled Landscape
SM Sultan (1952)

On the barn
Pellizza da Volpedo (1893)

Chop Suey
Edward Hopper (1929)

Guitarist
Charles Wilbert White (1959)

Expose The Truth
Jon Mcnaughton

The Subway
Jose Clemente Orozco (1928)

Forgotten Man
Maynard Dixon (1944)

Deputy Firing Shot
Oliver Kilbourn (1975)

La Vucirria
Renato Guttuso (1974)

Yellow Houses: District Six
Gerard Sekoto (1942)

YELLOW HOUSES, A STREET IN SOPHIATOWN
Gerard Sekoto (1940)

Calling the Weigh
Oliver Kilbourn (1974)

Harvest Talk
Charles Wilbert White

You are Not Forgotten
Jon Mcnaughton

Afternoon Work
Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1918)

Front of Villarreal de Álava
Carlos Saenz de Tejada (1938)

Motherless
Luke Fildes (1914)

Years of Dust', US government poster
Ben Shahn

Portrait of Carlos Pellicer
Diego Rivera (1942)

Tamika
Barrington Watson

Self-Portrait Among Church Goers
Ben Shahn

Self Portrait
Diego Rivera

Struggle for Emancipation
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1961)

Peasant Mother
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1962)

Mother and Child
Barrington Watson (1959)

WATCHING THE DANCER, EASTWOOD
Gerard Sekoto (1947)

At the clinic
George Pemba (1979)

LA NIÑA
Antonio Berni

New Brighton
George Pemba (1960)

Mom's Cathedral
Philip Evergood (1951)

Seward Park
Ben Shahn (1936)

Portrait of a lady
Alekos Kontopoulos (1931)

Trump
Jon Mcnaughton

Blind children feel an elephant
Sue Coe

The Lights of the Plant
Maria Stolarova (1965)

Rosie
Will Barnet (1936)

Sunset at the Beach
Barrington Watson

La Strada
Renato Guttuso (1956)

Looting (Valencia)
Carlos Saenz de Tejada

Epsom Downs
Laura Knight (1938)

Station Bridge
Oliver Kilbourn (1950)

Desocupados (detalle)
Antonio Berni (1934)

Shaping of Black America
Charles Wilbert White

Gelvandale
George Pemba (1957)

Rural kitchen
Teodor Harșia

Mother and child
George Pemba (1951)

Overload
George Pemba (1989)

O Lavrador de Café
Candido Portinari (1939)

Prayer in Church
Gerard Sekoto (1947)

Evening Reading
Philip Evergood (1934)

Sacco and Vanzetti
Ben Shahn (1932)

Flautista
Candido Portinari (1934)

I had so many
George Pemba (1991)

Labor (Workers)
Will Barnet (1935)

THREE MEN AT A RAILWAY STATION
Gerard Sekoto (1940)

Mommy
Pellizza da Volpedo (1892)

The Barber Shop
Edward Hopper (1931)

A Balloon Site, Coventry
Laura Knight (1943)

Edsel B. Ford
Diego Rivera (1932)

Cana
Candido Portinari (1938)