Word: realism
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...brave new quest for realism in movies, Hollywood got set to turn out just about the realest screen biography it has ever produced. Starring in The Bob Mathias Story, about the Olympic and world decathlon champion: 23-year-old Mathias himself, as the athletic genius who, in stolen moments off the track and field, woos and wins a girl, who will be played by his bride Melba...
Fourthly, it is to be hoped that the Republican Party and conservative opinion in America will finally have the intelligence to admit their grievous error of winking while civil liberty, supposedly the traditional bastion of conservatives, was being destroyed. Not since Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Taft was not averse to praising Senator McCarthy. No historical revisionism or sentiment for the departed can erase this fact. Yet there are many Republicans who currently...
...sure way to start an argument in artistic circles is to try to define the course of contemporary American painting. Sometimes it seems headed for new heights, sometimes for dead-end crashes. It ranges between the two extremes of realism: 1) making paint look as much as possible like something else, and 2) letting it look like just paint. It makes some people mad and others glad, on alternate days. A good example of what the shouting is about can be seen this week at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, where Director James Johnson Sweeney has assembled an exhibition...
Modern Russian novels are rather like intricate tapestries: each position has effect and meaning only when one considers the development of the total work. Dostoyevsky's Idiot is no exception. An amalgam of theology, philosophy and realism, it is complex and ponderous. Any attempt to bring it to the screen is ambitious, and though the interpretation at the Brattle may not retain all of the profundity of the prose, it represents a moderate artistic success...
...painting, he believed, was fishing. Glackens served an apprenticeship as an art journalist, sketching news events for the old Philadelphia Press. There he made friends with three future members of the "Ashcan School," a band of painters dedicated to mingling reporting and romance in a new. sketchy sort of realism. Glackens lent allegiance to the group, but trips to Paris awakened a far deeper loyalty to Renoir...