Word: realism
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...surprise, it was Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
There is one annoying feature about "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn": its plug for realism in writing and its pointed advice to would-be writers that only the familiar makes good subject matter. This is something of an apology for the story's stark style, and it's certainly not a new idea. Aside from such personal irritations, however, there is an extremely compelling theme of little people trying to rise from their distress that the most unsociological person will not fail to see clearly, and admire...
...worked and learned to carry a sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen pictures a year, he finally got around to his first one-man Manhattan show just five years ago, when...
...essential faith of America? There are a dozen essential faiths. From New England may have come our faith in good morals; but New York gave us our tolerance, Pennsylvania our faith in justice, the South our proud independence, the Middle West our practical realism, the Far West our belief in the impossible. Spice all this with a flavor of cynicism and humanitarianism from the Jews, humor and hotheadedness from the Irish, sex and sophistication from the French and sentimentality and love of comfort from the old-fashioned Germans, and you have a rough outline of essential Americanism...
...19th Century brought other European influences: detailed German realism, light-filled French impressionism and decorative French postimpressionism. By 1867, when Canada became the first self-governing country of the British Empire, the Dominion was not only experimenting with all the myriad painting styles of the western world, but had also begun a hardy local regionalism of its own. Among its outstanding modern exponents was the "Group of Seven," formed just after World War I. They painted "the very look and feel of Canada," and resembled the famed "Ashcan School" which appeared in the U.S. in 1908 (Luks, Bellows, Sloan...