At the same time, the depiction of work implicitly doubles as a proposition about the artist’s labor. Social bonds and collaborative work are framed as interdependent, subtly emphasized in the backdrop of the latter work, a social realist mural depicting migrant workers in the Midwest. As in her portrait of the museum security guards, Nisenbaum captures a kind of interstitial moment between work and rest. Like Casteel and Nisenbaum, Frazier often portrays moments of intimacy, familiarity, and rest rather than toil, but her aims are more overtly agitational. This article appears under the title “The Work of Realist Art” in the September 2020 issue, pp.

Source: Ethiopian News September 01, 2020 17:26 UTC