Word: realism
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...good bit was bad. But Burr Miller's marble Chrysalis showed how a sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
There is a sly humor in such episodes as that of Noah and the Flood; a piquant realism to making the headquarters of the Lord a sleepy, small-town office. The best performances-such as Ossie Davis' as Gabriel-have an easy charm, and the best of Robert Edmond Jones's sets have a clean, morning freshness. And the Hall Johnson Choir strikes a resonant note with its singing of the spirituals...
Henry Koerner's meticulous realism strikes a lot of moderns as just a throwback to 19th Century genre painting. But since art moves in cycles, it may really represent an advance. Koerner obviously thinks so; the only question he asks himself is how to consolidate his advance...
Born in Indiana in 1871, Dreiser grew up at the time when Genteel Tradition was giving way to a rising new movement called "realism." In the early chapters of the book, Matthiessen traces Dreiser's groping for a new expression of that movement, which search culminated in 1900 in the publication of "Sister Carrie...
...last night's H.D.C. production was very good. Its legend with music of a witch-boy seeking love successfully ran from the comedy of a revival meeting ("One more chorus and the Lord'll have him") to the fantasy of witches and Conjur men, to the realism of childbirth and rape...