Wowzers, I actually hadn't known that MEAM actually had existed but it must be fun to explore around. Is it not?
Unto to the post proper: I love, right next to other art movements, the ability to portrait someone (especially before the age of cameras). Just the feeling that you can see into someone, feel the texture and get to understand a person by how they pose is something that's often utilized in portraits. And your art in the MEAM is no different, especially when you are on a time crunch and you have to paint complete random people without knowing in advance who they can even possible be there to see what's going on. As such, I figure the art style is certainly a soft and careful brush strokes that gives a sense of realism that's mixed in with the background of rushed/hurried ones that certainly gives a pizzazz and expressionist undertone.
Also, although completely discussed with the respect it deserves in the post, I like the fact that you mention that the artistry is happening around other monumental artworks with classical music blaring as people walk around. Gives more justifications for that realism (which now I am also tempted to say has impressionist influences as well) aspect but also a byproduct of mocking cameras that can't be exactly stylized and must be photoshopped at times even when it's the best possible picture frame. (To go on the "stylize" description I mean: in pictures I cannot have it where I can have realistic person A but person B is cartoony and then person C is cartoon realistic. That requires photoshop to muck about with such. In paintings, there's a sense of artistic freedom to even screw up and assess whether the screw up is a screw up later down the painting.)
