The commonality between their artwork was the element of painterly realism coupled with symbolism to give the imagery a meaning that went beyond the obvious. Suhail’s almost photographic realism ...

Said the Sunday Observer: “This term ‘symbolic realism’ is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens ...

a romanticized vision of precolonial Africa — and delivers a jarring kind of symbolic realism, equal parts heat, humor and humanism. The pregnant woman in “Flux” sits on a boombox ...

All Wilson’s plays blend realism with symbolism and poetry, allowing them to function on two levels simultaneously. This production neatly balances those elements, highlighting Wilson’s ...

Ovidio Giberga and Merrie Wright create sculptures of living beings, strikingly realistic in form and richly symbolic in surface detail. While Giberga's autobiographical figures are charged with ...