Word: realist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the wily loon that Stallone would blow away in Reel 5. Cage is a prime serious actor, and he has last year's Best Actor Oscar, for his role as the weary romantic suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, to prove it. "I never saw myself as a realist," he says. "I always saw myself as a stylist trying to give a different slant on reality...
...Kooning and Franz Kline, most of the Abexers--Gorky, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton or left-wing Social Realist, as provincial, shallow and irrelevant. "Poor art for poor people," sniffed Gorky. They wanted to dive deeper. They valued the primordial, the spiritual, the primitive and the archetypal as sources of inspiration...
...painting does not go in tandem with those of architecture and engineering. Yet when painting aspires to a "scientific" analysis of things in sight, when the ego of the artist recedes behind the task of examination, one can at least speak of parallels. The American Realist generation of the turn of the century would not have disagreed. One of them was Thomas Anshutz (1851-1912), best known for his small factory scene, The Ironworkers' Noontime, 1880. It's a piercing image of American youth and strength, feeling its new muscle (literally) in the post-Civil War industrial surge...
...spark a series, but Kilmer is ready for whatever happens. "Movie careers can be a machine-gun thing," he says. "You do three jobs, one of them will hit. I've always been confident about trusting what I can get from acting." That sounds like Val Kilmer the realist, who plans a long career giving moviegoers pleasure and directors hell...
Barich, a journalist who has written memorably about horse racing (Laughing in the Hills) and the Golden State (Big Dreams), produces a lot of heat as he cuts across generations and cultures. But Carson Valley is not just another brand of romantic plonk. Barich is a social realist with a fine feel for the similarities between agriculture and love. Both require risk and constant cultivation with no guarantee of success. That is not lost on Arthur and Anna Torelli, who have gone through divorces and are skittish about new commitments. Added to the mix are elements of lonely-guy touchiness...