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...Germany with the U.S. Army and Military Government, Koerner had painted ruins and ruined people. Now, back in Brooklyn, he concerned himself with a less apparent wasteland. Among the best of Koerner's new pictures was Subway, a familiar scene made into a nightmare of sharp realism. Koerner used one anti-realistic stunt: he vastly enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked...
Born 65 years ago in Nyack, N.Y., Hopper has been following the painter's road for nearly half a century. He was lucky enough to study with Robert Henri, whose "Ashcan School" of urban realism neatly fitted his own natural bent, and he later made three trips to Paris (where he imitated the impressionists but made no contact with young moderns like Picasso). For a long time Hopper's road was a rocky one. He sold only two paintings in 23 years, supported himself by doing commercial illustrations, which he hated. Says Hopper: "I was a rotten illustrator...
...prime defect of "realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...
Asserting that "We're business-like but informal," he wasted no time getting down to work. The system was simple; he would scan the textbook (Binkley's "Realism and Nationalism") page by page and dictate a condensation of the material, slowly enough for me to copy into my notebook...
Vittirio De Sica has directed so well that nowhere are his efforts obvious; similarly no one in the picture "acts." The realism of "Shoeshine" is as great as that of "Open City" and it even surpasses the latter film by a simplicity of theme that nowhere permits the continuity to become naveled as did the narrative of the Italian underground. De Sica has limited himself to a small canvas in painting the destruction of the two young lives but has produced a masterpiece with deeper meaning. When Pasquale brings about his young friend's death, he does not receive punishment...