Word: realism
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...MacGinnis's performance, in fact, that makes Martin Luther more than just a good picture. He achieves a sense of realism with almost impressionistic, acting. By unusual inflection in his sentences, MacGinnis's voice underscores the lines written by Allan Sloane and Lothar Wolff, giving them tremendous emphasis when needed...
...view in Philadelphia last week were 24 paintings, gouaches and drawings that showed how far Radulovic has moved from the corn field realism of his earlier work toward a more abstract use of form, line and color. Radulovic's own favorite was a huge, dragonlike, earth-digging machine in deep oranges, reds and whites...
Director Peter brook's color camera prowls quietly through each scene emphasizing details that bring realism to the film. Concentrating on facial expressions, his close-ups and angle shots are typical of his bet work...
Moreover, two standout photographers now strongly for realism made their first fame as "pictorial" artists. Alfred Eisenstaedt-the master of the sharp, meaningful portrait and the photographer who stirred U.S. enthusiasm for the Leica and other 35-mm. cameras-contributed an early picture of a ballet rehearsal that owes its mothlike softness and radiance to Degas' influence. Irving Penn's evocation of a midsummer nap harks back to a 15th century Venetian, Carlo Crivelli, who also used sharply focused flies to achieve a greater illusion of depth...
...painting, abstract photographic experiments seem destined not to replace realism, but to teach it new tricks. One of the paradoxes of photography is the fact that never does life seem more unreal than when the realistic camera comes closest to it: when Harold Edgerton photographed a drop of milk falling into a saucer, it came out looking like a crown, and when Edward Weston shot the heart of an artichoke, it looked like a modernistic abstraction...