Word: realisms
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...power of his landscapes.) Yet anyone who visits the retrospective of his paintings from 1966 to 1980 at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art this month (and at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts starting in late November) can see that this is not "simple" realism; realism seldom...
Welliver's kind of realism could have matured only in the past 25 years A.P.-After Pollock. His paintings are saturated with the ideas about surface and space that abstract paintings put into currency in America. They have less to do with locating a set of objects in the illusion of a void than with creating a continuous pelt of shapes that fills the surface from edge to edge, top to bottom. With 19th century landscapists like Bierstadt or Corot, one is softly inducted into the illusion. Welliver points out, 'You can really just enter into...
...there an alternative to Begin? Shimon Peres, the leader of the opposition Labor Party whom Begin has edged out twice in national elections, increasingly seems a voice of realism. He has been pressuring Begin to use the Lebanon victory for a generous peace, and probably gains some public support each time Begin avers his refusal to budge. Unlike Begin, Peres received Reagan's peace plan warmly...
...will always be a Palestinian movement, each day, more and more frustrated. Better to maintain the PLO as a strictly political force with some sense of honor intact. Then, hopefully, they will be more reasonable." It's a debatable position, but it's certainly borne of good faith and realism, not anti-Semitism...
Judith Hart, a member of Parliament, recently described the role of unions nicely: "...the trade union movement in this country is part of our democratic inheritance, fought for in hardship, established in realism." It's time for some of that realism to creep into government policy towards labor both here and in Britain before both economies get even worse...