Word: realism
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...story, told in doggerel verse against a background of music, makes hardly more sense as fantasy than as realism. Conceivably the doggerel expresses the rubbishy lives of the modern London sophisticates, while the hovering music symbolizes the lost world of poetry. But the actual effect is that of an oldtime, trashy silent movie, with the pianist dishing out lachrymose Tchaikovsky. Chatterton may have deserved a second life; this play about...
...screening it as pure realism, he loses Willy Loman, the symbol of a salesman, and leaves only Willy Loman, a certain salesman who got a tough break out of life. And Kramer's production, although it is too fuzzy and heavy to be a great movie, is still worth seeing. The movie Willy Loman is merely incomplete--the other Willy Loman was better...
Critics and public alike gave them the horselaugh. The art fashion of the 1900s was as opposed to realism as it is today. Now, abstractions are the rage; then, art in the U.S. was spelled with a capital A and stood for dreamy, academic idealizations. The lively glimpses of real people, places and things that Sloan and his friends painted struck art lovers as ugly. The group was scornfully dubbed "The Ashcan School...
...sergeant having his last fling in a sordid military brothel, an attractive girl turned to prostitution, a Prussian general who uses the noose to maintain discipline to the last. These characters, against a background of bombed out and burning buildings, give a most effective impression of stark, demoralizing realism. Happy takes it all in with the disillusioned expression of a man who recognizes evil, but can see no answer...
...seldom been performed in Europe, and the Brattle Company showed courage to give Ivanov its American premier. As a play Ivanov is poorly constructed. Some of the scenes approach melodrama; many of the lines are weak; and Chekhov had not yet mastered the subtleties of characterization that heightened the realism of his later works...