Word: proletarianized
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...Futurists, composed largely of intellectuals, met with opposition from the so-called "proletariat writers," who denounced the Futurists as being "intellectual-bourgeois," and not fit for the new proletariat society. They felt that literature should be written by the class in power; since Russia was now proletarian, only the proletariats should write. Large "writing schools" were soon established to teach the workers to create poems, novels...
...came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious Parisian's neighbors learned his identity: ailing Maurice Thorez, France's high-living No. 1 Communist, a dedicated proletarian whose exclusive industry aims at delivering France into the Kremlin's power...
Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, where the local toughs forced him to portray favorite athletes on the pavement with chalk. Little Ben learned to draw very well indeed. He also developed a temper. It was the perfect schooling for a "proletarian-school" painter. Shahn grew up to startle the art world with a series of watercolors, almost as beautiful as they were bitter, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He became perhaps the best, and most depressing, painter of the Great Depression. Shahn's "havenots" were lean as greyhounds and sad-eyed as spaniels; his "haves" always...
...protest is still there. But it is stated in poetic rather than in "proletarian" terms. Shahn still draws for two hours every morning ("like doing finger exercises"), and the liveliness of his draftsmanship keeps even the vaguest of his new works from seeming too diffuse...
Tamayo, a Zapotec Indian, likes to repeat: "My feeling is Mexican, my color is Mexican, my shapes are Mexican." Then he adds, "But my thinking is a mixture." His thoughts about art are cosmopolitan and drawn more from the school of Paris than from the militantly proletarian school of his countrymen Rivera and Siqueiros. At 54 Tamayo has come a long way from the Mexico City fruit markets where he grew up, has become one of the Western Hemisphere's most sought-after painters. Contrasted with Chardin's chill but solid mastery, Tamayo's Fruit Vendors looks...