Word: realism
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President Truman expressed himself as "immensely gratified." Trygve Lie put in a sorely needed plug for the U.N. Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok voiced a rather astonishing accolade to Egypt's sybaritic King Farouk: "Tribute must be paid to the realism and courage of the Egyptian monarch and government, their breadth of vision and . . . bold statesmanship...
There was nothing wrong with what the public liked. Old Models was painted with super-photographic realism and depth perception, qualities in Harnett which experts acknowledge and admire too. More than one visitor absently tried to flick the dust off its violin. Breaking the Home Ties, though as bluntly aimed to draw tears as a punch in the eye, is nevertheless an expertly painted scene of the young man's departure for the big city. When first shown, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors wore out three carpets in the rush to admire...
...bridge with the adjutant's wife, always knows what is going to happen before he does. The eternal yardbird, the eager second lieutenant, the PX floozie and the latrine lawyer are all old stuff to anecdote audiences, but "At War With The Army" presents them with such freshman and realism that they come to life again. Even the jokes, aged as they may be, are still pretty consistently funny...
...less than two years, Henry Koerner had become one of the most important and controversial figures in U.S. art* His allegories of postwar Germany and the U.S. had the robust realism of a modern Bruegel and often the satiric bite of Hieronymus Bosch. His colors might range from the muddy to the garish, and his compositions might tend to be needlessly cluttered, but each painting told a story and usually made it stick. Says Koerner: "Telling a thought-out story is the only way, by God, to inject life into this cadaver of modern...
...Fighting O'Flynn is a barefaced whopper, unsullied by any hint of realism, but it is told with whopping good spirits...