Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Crane's only esthetic creed was "honesty." He did much to release American fiction from the cocoon of euphemism and sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with...
...major U.S. literary figures, Sandburg, during a long productive life, has developed least as a writer, changed least as a man. His poetry, dredged raw from the look and experience of "the people," is from start to finish a shrewd, tender, cantankerous and lovingly slangy impressionist folk-portrait. Even his monumental biography, Abraham Lincoln, ungainly and near-noble, is a research-buttressed prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from...
...there was some good art: early genre studies by Winslow Homer, William Glackens' moveing paintings of the Spanish-American War, and Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic, 1889, a monumental study of an operation in an early hospital. There was even a small painting by the great French impressionist, Edgar Degas, of 19th Century Cotton Merchants. But the show's main appeal was to the ordinary American with a warm heart and a taste for a good story. It was a good bet that by the time the Corcoran closed its big cavalcade in December, Americans trooping...
...common: all of them were 60 or over; their average age was 70. And they held a common artistic philosophy: that nature is not a subject to be imitated and recorded on canvas, but is simply a jumping-off place for whatever an artist thinks or feels. Unlike their impressionist forebears, who painted what looked like windows opening onto sunny worlds, the young old men of the Paris school had long since shut the windows and painted whatever they liked on the glass...
Sextet won him a "neat and charming" notice from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. Last week an After Dinner Opera Company audience in Manhattan heard 23-year-old Composer Kupferman teamed up with a late impressionist of the literary world-Gertrude Stein...