Word: realist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pissarro's claim to recognition lies in such paintings as Peasant Digging (see opposite). A realist at heart, he followed Corot's advice always to paint out of doors. Pissarro made no effort to turn the young peasant woman into a monumental symbol, but accepted her as part of the landscape. His real joy, as his broad brush strokes show, was in catching on the spot the midday heat and glitter...
Tobacco Money. A realist who knows his history, Martin is well aware that he could overnight become the scapegoat of slump. In the crisis-stained chronicles of U.S. finance, bankers have been crucified on crosses of gold, silver, paper and every other substance used to back currency. From early colonial days, when they had to ship scarce gold and silver abroad to pay for imports, Americans chronically lacked sufficient backing for stable money. Virginia in the 17th century used tobacco for money (top-grade weed was worth 3$. a lb.), but was plunged into inflation by citizens' cash crops...
Another of Soutine's models was France's 19th century realist Gustave Courbet (TIME, Color Page April 30). who. said Soutine, "was able to express in the body of a woman the atmosphere of Paris. I want to show Paris in the carcass of an ox." This Soutine proceeded to do, hanging up a whole carcass in his studio, refreshing it periodically with a pail of blood from the butcher's shop until the stench of decay brought the police. But the resulting paintings today rank among Soutine's masterpieces. Soutine knew few moments of repose...
...last week the new party line had at least partial approval from the greatest Soviet realist of them all, Stalin's favorite portrait painter and president of the Soviet Academy of Art, Alexander M. Gerasimov, 74, whose heroic, mural-sized painting of Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov on the Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that...
...Year's meal consisting of a complete Western dinner followed by a complete Indian dinner. There are the bony peasants, the compounds full of servants and relatives related in intricate ways, the Congress politicians sidling for jobs, Goanese musicians with their "desperate nattiness," mystical followers of that "tough realist," Gandhi, and-most exotic of all-the Americans...