Word: realism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...except France. Drawing depth and drama from the history it helps illustrate, it has reflected not European painting but American life-rough and smooth, tumultuous and diverse. And though it is a great river of many sources and many passing moods, its strongest single current throughout is a searching realism. One measure of Edward Hopper's importance: he is today the revered champion of that tradition...
...existence of any belief seems at the moment almost inevitably contingent upon some sort of parochialism, temporal, cultural, or temperamental. But a secondary difficulty, at least among students in Eastern universities, has been the fact that the conscious expression of any belief which is accepted is regarded not as realism but naivete or weakness. The tough anti-systematic skeptics have so poisoned the air in our better educational institutions that credos tend to be considered as a symptom, with all the pejorative connotations of that word. But if there is no overt expression of belief, if we are indeed what...
...alone against architectural backrounds as in the work of Hopper, or in open spaces there is concentration on the human significance. Although Shahn's work is representational he can hardly be called a Realist. His pictures mean very much more than the objects or people they represent. Symbolic realism might better catch his selection and refinement of images, and aesthetic elaboration...
...reaction of the War as expressed in such pictures as Liberation and Italian Landscape, have led the artist towards a rediscovery of European art. It is apparent that a number of new influences have been felt by the artist since the days of the stumpy and more photographic realism of Sunday Painter. The influence of European masters like Giotto, he acknowledged as early as the Sacco-Vanzetti series. More recently folk and primitive art, as represented in the Rousseau-like motifs of Summertime or the expressive decoration of Incutus, are apparent, as well as the influence of early European religious...
Molotov has also been made official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where...