Word: frierson
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DURING THE 1870s, NEW SOCIAL issues tiedto the emergence of capitalism replaced concernfor the legacy of serfdom, and the realistpainters turned their eye to these new problems.The image of the peasant dominated many canvassesof the period; as Lecturer in History andLiterature Cathy Frierson has pointed out, it wasthe objective of many realist painters to"penetrate and master the peasant soul." IvanKramskoi's portrait, "Mina Moiseev" is the firstwork to confront visitors to the exhibit, and itgives clear insight into the Itinerant painter'sdetermination to study the psychological behaviorof the peasant. Using a restricted palette,Kramskoi does not idealize his subject...
INDEED, BEGINNING IN THE 1890s,landscapes came to dominate the Russian artisticvocabulary. According to Frierson, the land itselfbecame the subject of the paintings, while thepeasant became only one element in the broaderimage of the Russian countryside. Realism has beenabandoned in these paintings for a newromanticism, an idealized vision of naturestylistically closer to the middle ImpressionistsYet the land was Russian, even if the techniquewas French, and the works from this period arestill distinctly Russian in character...
...alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson), a not-too-swift minded hurler...