A painter of the people
1. Does "a painter of the people" mean "a painter who paints people" or "a painter who belongs to people and whom people love"?
2. Does "imaginative" in the context below imply "interesting"?
3. What does "as pride in, and protest against, American life" mean?
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Mitchell Siporin was a mainstream American artist in the 1930s. A true believer in the social purposes of art, he established himself as a painter of the “people.” With paintings of the American scene, of the Haymarket worker’s riots in Chicago, images of the homeless and subjects derived from social history, Siporin joined others in defining the imaginative space of the 1930s as pride in, and protest against, American life. By 1951 that imaginative space was gone. Instead it was an art of inwardness—virtually abstract canvases of dreamy, moody ambiguity and complexity.
Top answer
catttt 1. Does "a painter of the people" mean "a painter who paints people" or "a painter who belongs to people and whom people love"? It's more like he painted human beings, the people of America.
- catttt 1.
- Does "a painter of the people" mean "a painter who paints people" or "a painter who belongs to people and whom people love"?
- It's more like he painted human beings, the people of America.
- It sounds like he was portraying America by painting pictures of its citizens.
- catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "a painter of the people" mean "a painter who paints people" or "a painter who belongs to people and whom people love"?
It's more like he painted human beings, the people of America. It sounds like he was portraying America by painting pictures of its citizens.
catttt2. Does "imaginative" in the context below imply
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