Word: realism
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Benjamin Rowland, professor of Fine Arts, said that realism was one of the important feature of American art today. He compared the attempts of the sensationalists to a remark of Thoreau's: "Oh, for a sentence no intelligence can understand...
Critics have praised De Siea for his realism in scenes which occur as the trail leads the father and son to an open-air bicycle market, a medium's home, and a bordello. Unlike the forthright realism of his "Shoeshine," however De Siea's treatment here is often contrived. At one point the boy falls into a puddle while running after his father, an incident which seems injected for the sole purpose of proving the film's spontaneity of detail. The photography is consistently fine, but at times it also appears too forced for true dramatic impact...
...more than four years of trying to negotiate with the Communists, the U.S. had found in them no good faith and no apparent desire for peace-only the cold, calculating opportunism that the Communists call realism. If the U.S. could only negotiate from strength-as Secretary of State Dean Acheson said last week -the U.S. had to look to its defenses. It could...
...complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...
That sounded like a 19th Century ideal, and in a sense it was. To the free & easy followers of Matisse and Picasso, Hopper's realism seemed as harshly confining as a celluloid collar, but it had advantages. His devotion to nature kept him from being sour or repetitious, and his determination for "exact transcription" precluded fashionable slickness...