Word: applewoman
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Though most people think they feel sympathy for human wretchedness, it is a remarkable fact that present-day proletarian paintings are in general formalized, strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
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