Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less Brilliance. Realistic detail was the first thing to go: in painting a sick child, Munch began with a version showing the bed and the sickroom. His final version accented only the patient's waxen profile and the bowed head of her mother. Next Munch ditched the literary symbolism of the '90s which had encrusted his early works. The early Munch implied death's universality by showing a skeleton embracing a nude. Later he was satisfied to suggest the same theme by painting three girls on a bridge at evening, staring down into the dark, still water...
Plausibility is the key to a western, as Mr. Ford well knows: what makes "Wagonmaster" especially unfortunate is that it shows all the craftsmanship of a fine one. Ford's feel for detail and character is excellent. He creates a traveling pitchman who runs out of water in the desert, and is found dead drunk after two days of guzzling Magic Elixir to alleviate his thirst. There is a Charles Addams-type family of half-witted bandits, and a wagon train of Mormon emigrants inspired by frequent bleats on a ram's horn. But Ford fails to weld these details...
Students find him a hard taskmaster, but always sympathetic and ready to straighten out the staggering detail that often brakes their progress...
While History 1 with its weekly detailed map work is gone forever, it is "highly recommended" by the Department that the concentrator take Social Science 1, which focuses more on trends than historical detail, which requires essays, and which is no cinch...
Pitti-Sing: Corroborative detail indeed! Corroborative fiddlestick...