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...sees it as something of a happy medium between Fascist realism and "the form which cubism had diffused to the point of meaninglessness." He calls his style "realistic idealism," goes in for lush figures, both clothed and nude, done in thick, vivid colors...
...views." Net result: everyone signed a letter listing the things all good artists should be for & against. What they were against: 1) the Korean war, 2) U.S.-made A-bombs, 3) the "horrors of bacteriological warfare." What they were for: "An art which will draw inspiration from socialist realism and be understood by the working class." Among the signers was one French artist who has tried just about everything except the flat, travel-posterish style of "socialist realism" and who has never seemed to worry much whether the working class understood him or not. His name: Pablo Picasso...
Starting out to be an artist himself, Eliot tried all kinds of painting, from "tight realism to complete abstraction." In 1940 he made a gallery of his Boston apartment to exhibit the work of artist friends. But soon after that he began painting less & less and turned more & more toward writing. "A painter lives in his eyes," he says. "I felt a growing need to express myself in words. I'm not a painter any more...
Last week seven of Santo's oils were hanging in a Manhattan show of "Contemporary American Natural Painters " His pictures of Vermont hills and quiet snowy village streets are accurate in perspective and detail, subdued in color. But for all his near-professional realism, Santo still retains his fondness for simple storytelling subjects, e.g., Sunday Morning a woman and child walking up a snowy street toward a white steepled church or Sugaring, a farmer and his sledge in late-winter maple woods. "Maybe I do it a little different than other people," says Santo. "When I do a landscape...
...Appraisal. A sober but hopeful realism touched Eisenhower's overall appraisal: "There is no real security yet achieved in Europe; there is only a beginning ..." Many divisions have yet to be trained for immediate service and as a reserve. Europe's arsenals must be greatly expanded. Air power is far from adequate. SHAPE'S planners have to keep in mind the economic health of each ally-including the U.S. "America cannot continue to be the primary source of munitions for the entire free world . . . The U.S. cannot long continue such expenditures without endangering her own economic structure...