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Postwar German art is having a fling at surrealism, abstractionism and expressionism (TIME, March 26), but what the Berlin critics liked best about the American show was the modern realism. Wrote one critic: "The most interesting American artists to us Germans seem to be those whose convictions are most different from those of the School of Paris [Picasso, etc.]" Singled out for special cheers: Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth...
...Greco found realism a bore, and scorned the restraint that made Zurbaran a minor master. To be great, he needed neither. The shapes El Greco painted were generally shaky and his colors were often curious. More concerned with spirit than with matter, he merged the two in pictures as moving as any ever painted...
...country. When politics or expediency dictated policies that violated Forrestal's calculations of military necessities, he kept his worries within the official family, obeyed orders, and waited for the next chance at temperate persuasion. The sum total of his influence slowly moved the U.S. toward military realism, yet he had few personal victories to record. He could never bring himself to break security and either boast or speak out against his critics, but the criticism cut him deep. "Public service," he once observed, "is no place for an introvert...
Pleasant as the collection is in its nostalgic Americanism, it is by no means certain that it will bring about a new and enthusiastic evaluation of the period it covers. The critical taste of the time called for a half & half mixture of sweetness and the light of realism. Modern art runs to abstraction and violence. Both tastes are sharply limited, and U.S. painting of a century ago was as deep in the doldrums as today...
...acting is not outstanding, but it doesn't have to be. Michael Rennie is more than adequate as the envoy, and he has the advantage of a fine script to carry him along. The production's realism is heightened by running commentary from Drew Pearson, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis, played by themselves...