Word: realism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...themselves. What they saw gave evidence that color can be very good indeed. It cannot be substituted for a literate script-even the muted, tastefully done sets of From These Roots could not disguise the detergent flavor. But, with its still faintly unrealistic air, color does enliven the pseudo-realism of daytime drama, and did so for the fourth Purex Special for Women, which soap-operatically explored the fate of the modern spinster. Color also lent visual interest to such ordinary dry items as News of the Day, which included the first fully tinted tour of President Kennedy...
Dwarfs & Princelings. In Madrid his colors gradually brightened, but the lyric realism remained. While Rubens, who spent nine months at the Spanish court, tried to puff up his noble and royal subjects by surrounding them with allegorical figures, Velásquez painted them exactly as they were. His figures stand out against subdued or neutral backgrounds, but whether dwarf or princeling or court jester, they are full-fledged individuals, painted without adornment and without malice...
What makes this novel so extraordinary is that it is both an allegory and a chronicle of despair. The style fluctuates rapidly between poetic vision and brutal realism. The characters are naturally symbolic, but at the same time human--although remarkable in their sensitivity. Ernie Levy is the six million Jews put to death by the "final solution," yet, at certain moments, he is a most ordinary human being. That M. Schwarz-Bart has been able for the most part to combine these two levels of his story successfully is a tribute both to his skill and his diligence...
...Realism Turns Unreal. He tirelessly sketched models of Greek and Roman statues, studied Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, and most of all, El Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...
...lying down, standing, and floating under water all at once. The sea-green light, which seems to come from nowhere, falls not on the figures but on the folds of cloth, on a hand, on a death mask. In the end the painting turns out to be not realism at all, but a superb arrangement of low-keyed color and form...