Word: realist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writers, including Baudelaire, who had been Delacroix's admirers. Fantin-Latour then judiciously posed them beside a portrait of the great French Romantic painter. The composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much more difficult situation to compose. He selected ten realist artists for his Homage, including Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Leonard Baskin, Reginald Marsh and himself. Also portrayed was Soyer's twin brother Moses, a lesser-known painter who died in 1974. Most of these men had little or no connection with the long-dead artist being honored...
Philadelphia celebrates its realist genius, Thomas Eakins...
...from this week, through Aug. 1, anyone interested in realist painting must go to Philadelphia. American artists who call themselves realists should, if necessary, be dragged there by the collar; the experience waiting for them will be salutary and humbling. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is having a commemorative show of Thomas Eakins. It marks no particular date of his own. Eakins was born in 1844, and he died in 1916. But he passed his whole life, except for four years of European study, in Philadelphia, and his genius-hardly too strong a word, this time-is a proper thing...
Eakins is the greatest realist painter America has so far produced. He never successfully idealized a subject. When theatrical, which he rarely was, he tended to look silly. He was pragmatic, cussed, inquisitive, thoroughgoing, relentlessly observant, and plain of pictorial speech: a Yankee to the last finger bone. He was so in love with the specific that one scholar managed to compute, from the sun's angle, the time and date of the scene depicted in one of his paintings of rowers training on the Schuylkill, The Pair-Oared Shell; they went under the bridge, give or take...
...peculiar landscapes of pit and pore and hair. It wants to move outward from that to see its social relations and, perhaps, its allegorical uses, but it is invariably tied to some conception of realism. This is the painting that always gets condescendingly rediscovered when people talk about "realist revivals...