Word: realism
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...handful of the items date from after World War I. And most 20th-century portraiture tries to achieve far more than surface realism. Yet these examples are especially gratifying because they depict subjects most of whose looks and work and character are quite familiar to us--Freud, Hemingway, Toscanini, Shaw, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Gertrude Stein, Nehru, Einstein...
Stream of Sensuousness. For years, critics skimmed the dazzling prose surface of Hemingway and harped on his tough-guy realism. In one of those flat-out statements that sometimes herald a major critical about-face, at least one U.S. critic, North Carolina State's E. M. Halliday, recently called Hemingway essentially a philosophical writer. His was, of course, never a formal but a sort of visceral philosophy. But though he was leary of metaphysical systems, Hemingway was really on a metaphysical quest. Without the customary marks of the intellectual, in fact often called anti-intellectual, he was nevertheless...
Poland achieved its present standing almost in spite of itself. In its early years after World War II, the new Red regime was all for more and bigger posters; but like other countries in the Communist bloc, it favored the ponderous style of social realism. The graphic artists, led by the late Tadeusz Trepkowski, insisted on the right to something they called "emotional symbolism"- a highly charged, individual style in which mood and metaphor, as well as words, would carry the message. The artists won, and the poster became the first art form to be liberated from the long night...
Despite the tinhorn sound of the story, the movie manages to capture some of the sad, tawdry flavor of tent-show revivalism. There are authentic twangs to the score, a sweaty, sensuous realism in the swaying backwoods crowd, and vivid glimpses of gnarled God-fearing faces in Grant Wood gothic. The actors are so good they sometimes manage to make what they say seem important...
...lived nearly 200 years earlier. Last week Jacques Callot's 18 etchings on The Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on display in Frankfurt, leading off an exhibition that bore the single-word title "Krieg." Goya was often lurid; Callot proves an exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe...