Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandiose: just a persistent modesty, candor and good workmanship. Despite all European influences, U. S. art kept its character through the work of the Colonial portraitists, the obscure artists of the Western settlements, the sketchers who rode with the troops and Indian fighters, the thoroughly capable, salty and serious realism of George Caleb Birmingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins. Even in Sargent's bravura there was a kind of innocence...
...curtain fell yesterday on another Harvard teaching career when Louis Allard, professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...
...over Europe, declared that the greatest menace in Europe was the possibility that the French and English people would finally say: "Dear God, if we've got to fight this war, let's do it and get it over with. . . . Too much emotionalism and too little realism are being evidenced in the U. S. toward the entire European situation...
...painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...
...peculiar talent for portraying the neurotic. As the Long Island society girl who discovers a meaning in life just before hers is snuffed out, Miss Davis gives a brilliant and convincing performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize broad social facts reminds one somewhat of "The Shining Hour." At times the dialogue lags and verges on the trite, but the general importance...