Tag: Art as social commentary

• George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street

  

  The lone tenement beneath the new Queensboro Bridge looks out of place. Is it real? Or is it an architectural ghost, haunting us with memories of homes that were razed?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-19

  Art Appreciation, Canvas vs Canvas, Great Portraits, Social and Political Struggles, The Shy Museumgoer

  Art as social commentary, Arts writer Diane Tucker, Édouard Manet The Old Musician (1862), Compare paintings of urban renewal, George Bellows Ashcan School paintings, George Bellows The Lone Tenement (1909), Urban renewal in art