Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...
...confine himself to French art; the established Americans also benefit. At the Midtown Gallery, Robert Vickrey's sober portraits of people and places sold so fast (at prices up to $2,500) that the gallery was begging him for more pictures. At the other end of the abstract-realist spectrum, all but three of I. Rice Pereira's cool and calm abstractions ($1,400-$2,300 ), on display at the Nordness Gallery, were sold...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will inherit the show Jan. 29. In the exhibition catalogue, the Metropolitan's Albert Ten Eyck Gardner advances a theory on the evolution of Homer's style that might have startled Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same...
...glossy generalities of contemporary art criticism, "realist" and "old fogy" are nearly synonymous. Yet one of the nation's boldest painters is Realist Andrew Wyeth...
American Romance. Wyeth is limited. Compared with such a robust realist as Velásquez, he seems hardly to believe in reality. Compared with such a profound explorer-in-imagination as Pieter Brueghel, he sits by the stove cozily sketching. In context, his art has eminence. But the context is a shallow sea, shored by the book illustrations of his father, N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, and bounded at the horizon by the craggy islands of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer...