Word: glaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koerner's work, too, is theatrical. He illuminates almost every scene with the pitiless white glare of stage lighting-never sunlight or moonlight-and his actors move and speak with exaggerated force. These devices, skillfully employed, make Koerner's paintings more arresting than those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
Touch of Sadness. But both crowd and committee were slightly nonplussed when Petrillo sat down in the bright glare of the lights. He was dressed as quietly as a banker and he smiled a happy smile, like a man back at last among his dearest friends...
Diabolist Corradetti, his red-rimmed eyes blinking in the glare of the stage lights, beamed. His faith in the Devil had been rewarded...
...Hopper, "nature" is largely man-made (the glare of electricity and the harsh jumble of U.S. cities and towns fascinates him) and it consists more of what he remembers than of what he sees. His big, cleanly painted canvases look like windows on simplified reality...
...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...