Word: realism
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...close," he said, and so is "unbelievable waste and ostentation in the most important and most conspicuous product of our economy." To Crusader Romney, the shift meant not only a turn to function instead of frills, but a sign that the national psychology is leaning to ward "reason and realism...
Born in Hannover in 1887, Schwitters forsook the realism of his academic art training to become associated first with the sardonic Paul Klee, then with the Dadaists and such pioneer abstract painters as Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz...
Despite such simplicity of design, stage movements throughout most of The Ring were so statuesque that they suggested oratorio rather than opera. Realism was often ludicrously mixed with abstraction; when Mime helped to fashion a sword for Siegfried out of a magic potion, he matter-of-factly cracked two eggs into the potion as if following a recipe by Gayelord Hauser. Worst of all was the lighting, which was so murky that it came close to achieving Richard Wagner's stated ideal: "Now that I have created the in visible orchestra,* I would like to invent the invisible stage...
...Strong One. Along the way, Novelist Kazantzakis crams his book with gamy characters, gutty incidents and casual anachronisms. His description of freshly resurrected Lazarus, dazed and stinking of death, plucking off the worms, squeezes a new measure of realism out of the miracle. And his disciples are minor masterpieces of winy characterization. They are no heroes; Peter's nickname, for instance, is "Windmill," for his susceptibility to every change in the breeze of opinion. Matthew is "short, stout, jaundiced; his hands yellow and soft, his fingers inky, nails black; he had long hairy ears and a high voice like...
...unsentimental tear when bulldozers in the 1950s level it to a field of bricks in prep aration for the sterile rectangles of public housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski's Stairway has been scraped off like a scab by the welfare state, but in this novel its aroma of gamy decay still hangs...