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...atmosphere, as were the impressionists. "I want more than half the story," he says. "There are some people who like my work because they see every blade of grass. They're seeing only one side of it. They don't see the tone. If you can combine realism and abstraction, you've got something terrific...
...With prodigious realism, we've universalized knowledge of these works," said Prado director Miguel Zugaza in a presentation to the press. "We now have an amazing tool for researchers, teachers and art lovers...
...Soviet Union,” an exhibit at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies running until Jan. 22, showcases artists that struggled to uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task of constructing representational scaffolding for the projected reality awaiting Soviet citizens,” curator Anna Wexler Katsnelson wrote in the pamphlet accompanying the exhibit. The idea for this exhibit was conceived ten years ago as Norton T. Dodge, who received...
...Revolution," an exhibition at the Asia Society in New York City until Jan. 11, presents a fascinating look at an artistic development that came into being between the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 and its economic liberalization in 1978 - namely, the new visual aesthetic of socialist realism with Chinese characteristics...
...eggs in one basket: the Dewey Decimal System basket. I figured the kind of girl I wanted would hang out at Lamont in the 636s: Animal Husbandry. (For all those nerds who are complaining that Lamont doesn’t use the Dewey Decimal System, two words: magical realism.) Finding no one to saddle up with in the 636s, I moved on and checked out a copy of the “Protestant Ethic” and proceeded to read it as sensuously as possible across from the cutest girl on the third floor. She seemed to be pickin?...