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Angry Penguins Social Realism In Art Social realism, in art, describes both a specific stylistic approach and an overall attitude toward the subject. Social realism aims toward the not so lovely part of life. Its goal is not to amuse but to show the observer the evils of poverty , immorality and war. Social Realists believed that paintings should describe and express the people, their problems and their times. The roots of social realism lie in the 18th century. Some of the artists involved in the start of social realism are William Hogarth, Francisco de Goya and Honor Daumier. William Hogarth attacked drunkenness and foolish extravagance with his engravings of the 1730's to the 50's. Goya had a series of horrifying etchings titled The Disasters of War. Daumier had satiricial lithographs of the 1830's to '40's, social, realism, william, war, trial, toward, scenes, poverty, people, hogarth, goya, daumier, carried, artists, art, after, west, ward, victims, vanzetti, urban, united, tradition, titled, times, time, subject, stylistic, states, start, specific, society, sir, showed, show