Word: realism
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Wyeth was a wildly uneven painter, swayed and disheveled by every wind that blew. His work shows every influence he met, from the meticulous refinement of his teacher Howard Pyle to the dashing violence of Frederic Remington, from turn-of-the-century impressionism to strict realism of the sort practiced by his son. His "easel pictures"-landscapes and figure pieces done for pleasure between illustrating assignments-were his worst. As some men can dance well only to brilliant music, Wyeth painted at his best only when inspired by a timeless tale...
Fire Under Her Skin definitively proves that the "realism" of De Sica, Fellini, and others has become a stock formula and has lost the wonderful freshness that it once seemed to possess. All the inevitable ingredients are here, the triangle--or is it a pentagon--of passions, the sensitive man who kills the thing he loves, etc., replete with much fondling and other fine Gallic touches. Of course the "unhappy ending" has become stock too, with the usual frustrations, murders, and general cataclysm. The plot is so implausible that the outcome seems apparent before this charming idyll has ground through...
...fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow brass as a classic example of socialist realism (although that unsocialist romantic, Tchaikovsky, had been capable of similar stuff in his heavy-ordnance 1812 Overture). Last week's audience could almost see flashes of fire and smell gun smoke as the bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon...
...such as controlling the money supply can hold inflation in bounds necessary to keep from frightening investment away. Whatever is done, the conferees were fully agreed that inflation will be a worldwide problem for a long time to come. The solution, said Gibson, "calls for a combination of economic realism, political courage and a strong faith in the future...
...stage. Last year in New York City alone there were an estimated 500 exhibitions of paintings by Americans. This fall's season is opening with a widespread and impressive array of U.S. interest. The Cincinnati Art Museum is featuring an exhibition of 20th century U.S. realism which it calls "An American Viewpoint"; Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute has hung 121 works in its "American Classics of the 19th Century"; Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is about to inaugurate an enlarged American wing; the Brooklyn Museum is preparing "The Face of America," an exhibition of portraits from all periods. This...