Word: realist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia, a retrospective of a rigorous realist...
...Realist painting is now such an accepted fact of American art that one almost forgets how many of its best practitioners were once abstract painters, converted in midcareer. Philip Pearlstein, Sidney Tillim, Alfred Leslie, William Bailey: they all came, in one way or another, out of abstract expressionism, making the change not from opportunism-15 or 20 years ago, practically no collectors or museums were exempt from the tyranny of abstract art-but out of a sense of lost engagement with the physical world and a hunger to recomplicate the game. Yet the past leaves its genetic code...
...Coward, like all great writers of comedy, was not just a funny man. He was a supreme realist, who saw the humor, or the absurdity, in most human situations. When his good friend Clifton Webb mourns over the death of his mother, Coward is, for instance, properly sympathetic. To his journal, however, he expresses his impatience: "Poor Clifton is still, after two months, wailing and sob bing over Maybelle's death. As she was well over 90, gaga, and had driven him mad for years, this seems excessive and overindulgent. He arrives here on Monday...
...proposals have roused excited and generally favorable interest among West Bank Palestinians. Heated discussions about the merits of the plan occur at nearly every West Bank gathering. As a Palestinian editor put it, "It may not be what we have been struggling for, but you have to be a realist." Although there is disappointment that Washington ruled out an independent Palestinian state, there is also a feeling that just about anything is now preferable to continued occupation by Israel...
...latest in a long series of portraits Soyer has done of other artists, including Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, John Sloan and many obscure representational painters. This time Soyer's subject is Mervin Jules, now 70, who is viewed, starkly, in an empty room, as a realist icon of aging...