Jack Levine Feast of Pure Reason (1989)

This bold and unconventional film portrait reveals Americas foremost Social Realist painter doing what he does best skewering corrupt politicians and police raging over social injustices and satirizing the petty foibles of humankind Jack Levine got his professional start during the Federal Art Projects of the WPA and quickly became world famous for his brilliantly painted brutally ironic vision of America and the world He is the only American artist who never stopped painting as a Social Realist even when it went out of vogue in the 1950s and 1960s Im alone at the old stand I feel I still have something to say Let the avant garde go hangthe human condition is what interests me A selfimposed outsider Levine has deliberately cut himself off from the mainstream Im like the little dog at the circus who runs the wrong way under the hoop