Word: realist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fool-the-eye realist, Albright paints each object in the light most flattering to it. To paint the whole picture in a single light would make it "static," he believes. Another Albright idea 5 to paint different objects at different angles. He will turn the canvas upside down to paint a bottle on a bureau, then turn it sidewise to paint the bureau. At first glance, everything in his pictures seems well anchored in space; at a second glance things start spinning...
...Closing Hours. Amidst all the relief felt for the ending of the Indo-China war and the acclaim for his dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Pierre Mendès-France, the realist, had no illusions and said so. Geneva had been a disaster for France, forced on him by past mistakes. On paper, Mendès-France had got more last-minute concessions than any one had expected, but the agreements were full of potential booby traps. Biggest one of all: the agreements depended on Communist promises...
...ticked off half of his allotted time, other Frenchmen, sympathetic to his aims but doubtful of his chances, are asking questions. Is Mendès an innocent in all but economic matters, surrounded by inexperienced intellectuals united only by their dislike of inertia? Or is he a self-disciplined realist who expresses a French mood of grim resolution? Or is he Kerensky, the last man before surrender...
...pavilion, which the Museum of Modern Art bought this year from the Grand Central Art Galleries, offered the works of only two painters-Social Realist Ben Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn...
...cool and brave. Under the pressures of cold war, he has held courageously to the proposition that for France, survival lies in loyal alliance with the U.S. At the Berlin Conference, with a divided government and country behind him, he spoke out firmly and unequivocally. "He is a realist who will not let the dream of the best prevent him from grasping the good," said one who considers himself a friend. "The core of Bidault is rigidly moral and deeply religious." On such a man last week fell the bitter task of laying before the Communists France's terms...