Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from it. To them, realism consists of the painting of life as something which has its morbid moments; but these moments they find it better in their art to suggest rather than to display. When Sherwood Anderson's hero in Many Marriages divests himself of his clothes and parades naked before a glass...
...fire at the Pyle house, but have been completely restored and with difficulty transferred bodily to the gallery. In the oil painting room, two of the notable canvases are Marooned, and the Flying Dutchman-formidable pirate figures with Pyle's characteristic contrasts of color masses and sombre realism. There are Revolutionary War scenes, one small watercolor, illustrations for Pyle's own stories, A Modern Sinbad and the Pilgrimage of Truth (the latter painted on mahogany), and pen-and-ink sketches for many stories and articles originally published in Harper's Magazine...
...stone to the respectability of an English common-room. However what he sought was not glamour but peace of spirit, and in truth he appears to have found little enough of either. The scenery of the islands seems to have left him cold. Instead, with a vivid and stern realism he paints a picture of sweltering heat, disease, fever, and death in the midst of a polyglot community of picturesque but unattractive traders (and scoundrels), ignorant and unpleasant savages, and an anomalous horde of half-castes, to say nothing of his pet aversions, the Presbyterian missionaries and the "Orstrylyun" bagmen...
...Masefield is often more disagreeable. He is a realist and is temperamental about it. His profanity is revolting and largely because of this I would say he exhibits cheap realism. Shaw in one of his seenes gains all the effect of the use of profacity by merely having the speakers repeat the word "rotten", but Masefield simply swears,--to the extent that one becomes weary...
...These writers show many eccentricities, but the nevertheless go to form an ora of realism rarely paralleled in literature...