Word: realistes
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...City. Titled "Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956," it consists of around 100 paintings and sculptures exhumed from various Russian museums. Appended to it is a group of works and installations by contemporary Russian artists -- Komar and Melamid, Ilya Kabakov and others -- that reflect on the Socialist Realist legacy with more irony than bitterness: this was the formative art of their childhood, and they had little else...
American childhood sometimes emits a note that is painfully clear and haunted. It vibrates through a taut wire of memory from a long way off, even from the opposite end of a child's life. This is not sentimental music. The sound issues from the child as involuntary realist, the one who sees with defenseless clarity and transmits without melodrama or calculation. That child's transparency, a kind of wonder, can break the heart...
...mildly, a bit of a bore. For Freud, despite his quota of failed pictures (failed, however, by standards to which most living artists don't aspire), is the best realist painter alive. To watch the development of his work -- even in the abbreviated form of one show -- is like watching a wily cock salmon compelled upstream by instinct, against the cataracts of modernist history, following its desires. Most of the major stylistic events in art since 1900, starting with late Cezanne and going on through Cubism to abstraction in its various forms, have had no apparent impact on Freud...
...Lucian Freud, the best realist painter alive...
...Clinton has been reborn as a New Realist. The articulated heart of this philosophy is the need "to grow America's economy." The unarticulated dark side is, as James Lilley, a former U.S. Ambassador to China says, "the reassertion of geopolitics after the honeymoon with human rights." Assuring the personal freedom of everyone everywhere is still supposed to be America's great goal, but it will not be permitted to interfere ultimately with Clinton's trade-first strategy. No one would put it as baldly as Calvin Coolidge did when he said the business of America is business, but Christopher...