Word: realism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past 300 years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial skill and lucidity of realization that defy not only imitation but, in some final way, analysis itself. He is to realism what Piero della Francesca is to abstraction. First Edouard Manet and then a whole succession of French painters from the 19th century into the 20th (not to mention English and American ones as well, in particular Sargent and Whistler) were transfixed by Velazquez when they found him on their pilgrimages...
...gets us nowhere to think that Cubism was meant as a form of realism. That * is what art historians like Douglas Cooper thought -- Cubism aimed for "the solid tangible reality of things" by representing them from several angles. But "solid tangible reality" is hardly detectable in this show. You get an overwhelming sense of plastic energy from Picasso's drawing of volume, but that is a different matter. Neither he nor Braque was out to propose a systematic alternative to one-point perspective as the key to making things look real. There was no system to Cubist shuttling and lapping...
...wonderful job of portraying Emmett Smith the reclusive, cynical and alienated veteran of the Vietnam conflict. He brings a hard-edged intensity to an underwritten character who should have commanded more of In Country's focus. Richard Hamilton and Peggy Rea also lend a much needed sense of realism to the movie with their fine portrayals of Samantha's grandparents...
...menace do not synergize as hysteria, the way they did in Fatal Attraction. This film is relatively calm. But it is worth taking in because all concerned catch the tone of New York's besieged multitudes. Their weariness is touched with hope, and their hope with irony. Their realism transforms what might have been an item easily overlooked by the moviegoer into something worth collaring...
This time around, though, few will challenge Clancy's claim that simple research and intuition give his books their uncanny sense of realism...