Word: artless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is above all an artless fable, done in a color which is deep in the meaning of the scene-- no easy feat--and not something daubed on as a bemused after thought. The Russian cinema here has joined the English and French in challenging Hollywood's fatcat producers simply by making a picture with imagination and directness...
...work. Last week a book of her pictures (Grandma Moses, American Primitive, Doubleday; $6) was re-issued with an introduction by Literary Rustic Louis Bromfield, who compared her with Peter Bruegel. Grandma Moses is no Bruegel, but she is no stale Picasso either. Sophisticates rave over the artless joy in her paintings...
...knows him well, "has spent millions for his movie business just to get an emotional outlet." Arthur himself has defined that emotion: "I want nothing of this for myself. . . . I am doing this work for my God and for my country." No one who has seen artless Arthur struggle to assemble these words, like a man worrying boulders to a wall, can doubt that he means them...
...belongs with George Caleb Bingham's painting, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, as a work of art worthy of the artless wanderers who gave an American ring to the word freedom...
...hopes and fears and gripes and fun and duty-born courage because he shares them as no exceptionally fearless or exceptionally brilliant man ever could. What chiefly distinguishes him from other average men is the fact that he is a seasoned, expert newsman. 'His dispatches sound as artless as a letter, but other professionals are not deceived. They know that Ernie Pyle is a great reporter. Young would-be journalists could search far for a better textbook than his life and writings-a profitable study both of skills acquired and handicaps overcome...