Word: realism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recession" or a "lull." The new cliché was "let's be realistic." Being "realistic" meant a drop, at most, in the gross national product of 5% to 10% (or back to about the level of 1952) and a rise in unemployment to 3,500,000. But such "realism" did not necessarily mean that the economy would be much shaken...
...Realism Without Exactitude. Ever since Rousseau's sophisticated friends-Picasso, Braque & Co.-began promoting him at the turn of the century, primitive art has been a subject of controversy. In the first place, few can agree on just what the word is meant to cover. Two things it always stands for are an untrained hand and a childlike eye. Primitives are would-be realists whose charm depends on their very inability to paint photographically accurate pictures. Most of them have trouble with figures (as does Grandma) and make a habit of cluttering their canvases with niggling details (as Grandma...
...results were still not up to the colorful semi-abstractions he painted before the party high command ordered a change to "socialist realism." But Guttuso had progressed a long way from his first tortured attempts to illustrate the party line (TIME, Oct. 2, 1950). "Of all those who participate in the neo-realistic current," wrote the critic of Fiera Letteraria, "Guttuso stands alone . . . with his singular and exemplary force of composition." The public liked Renato's new work, too; most of the pictures were sold in two weeks...
...delighted to find my portrait, done under the skillful brush of Artzybasheff, on the cover of TIME, Nov. 2. It was an abstract rather than realistic portrait, of course ; for clear realism would have shown an Omnica bag, Norwood light meter, Exakta VX, and three photo-all lenses with including travel a stains from being logged 95,000 miles through twelve countries and four Pacific islands. But as a symbolic portrait it was superb . . . W. NORWOOD BRIGANCE Crawfordsville...
...rare visits to his mother, Danny is treated to more grim realism and the reader to Author Farrell's small-fry prose: "Danny didn't like it, seeing his new baby brother being fed at Mama's breasts . . . When he was a little baby he did that, got milk from Mania's breast. It almost made him mad. Why did God make it that way? It was like oysters. Oysters looked like milk that would make you maybe sick if you ate them. He couldn't look at oysters...