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Kitchen sink drama started as a condescending term but these days people might try to use it without ascribing morality.

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Britons living in cramped rented accommodation.

Kitchen sink dramas utilised social realism which, to British art looks like: The main characters of so-called kitchen sink dramas were frequently angry young men. Paintings sport titles such as “Mother, Child and Bedsprings” and “Still Life With Chip Fryer”. The ‘ Kitchen Sink art‘ tag at the Tate Modern includes Edward Middleditch and Peter Coker in its results. See, for instance “ The Toilet“, a 1955 painting of an actual toilet. His paintings are a standout example of Kitchen Sink art. John Bratby was a painter who lived 1928–1992. People were questioning and ridiculing the cultural conventions which came before. The British public felt more free, more affluent and eager to shuck off the rigidity of the past. The Conservative Party won the 1951 election with their slogan “Set the People Free”. The United Kingdom experienced massive cultural change in this era. ‘Kitchen sink realism’ or ‘Kitchen sink drama’ were terms coined to describe a British cultural movement which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This sometimes describes work which draws attention to the middle class and its problems.

You’ll also hear the term ‘Kitchen sink realism’. So, things which middle class reviewers and commentators find uncomfortable, alien and other. This word is also often used to describe work involving violence and the taboo. Naturalism often focuses on less educated or lower-class characters. In works labelled ‘realism’, the main focus is on the middle class and its problems. Sometimes the difference between naturalism and realism depends on the subject matter, or rather, the perceived class of the person who wrote it. Writers also keep God right out of the picture. The subject is neither idealised nor flattered. Basically, any hint of romanticism is completely stripped away. But if you want to talk about realism as a group of terms, naturalism is at the MOST realistic of these different types of realisms. This term is often used interchangeably with realism. “What we’ve dubbed realism is nothing more than the inclusion of consequences that are generally specifically ignored for the sake of a plot… Now if a director says they’re striving for realism it means they’re taking an unrealistic premise “and examining consequences when the premise is viewed through the lens of reality.” NATURALISM