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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Apesos’ style changes very little throughout the exhibit. For the most part, he uses oil paints to create clearly defined images, reminiscent of the Romantic painters, but on a few occasions he creates a somewhat blurred, muted scene, making the painting seem more at home in the Realist tradition...

Author: By Emily W. Porter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Re-Membering Myth | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...cynic would suggest the bonhomie was a sign that none thought the bill had a chance of passing. But a realist would give them credit for trying, while recognizing it as the protective warmth that envelops any effective mutual-aid society. Campaign-finance reform may be an arcane subject, but it is also a matter of survival for politicians, as familiar as their morning coffee. And the Senators were using their intimate knowledge of the subject to protect themselves and each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance: Debating For Dollars | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...skirts of a dying ballerina. In a late painting of lilac blossoms in a vase, you can feel the thick darkness--the darkness of Goya, whose work Manet adored--closing implacably on the fragile white blooms. This may have been as near to deliberate allegory as Manet, the arch-Realist, would go. Or it may not: one can't be quite sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Still Fresh As Ever | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...cynic would suggest the bonhomie was a sign that none thought the bill had a chance of passing. But a realist would give them credit for trying, while recognizing it as the protective warmth that envelops any effective mutual-aid society. Campaign finance reform may be an arcane subject, but it is also a matter of survival for politicians, as familiar as their morning coffee. And the senators were using their intimate knowledge of the subject to protect themselves and each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance: Debating For Dollars | 3/25/2001 | See Source »

...beautiful batsman?he lacked the grace of Victor Trumper, Ted Dexter or Mark Waugh?but as his late teammate Jack Fingleton wrote: "He was such a genius that he could well have indulged himself in the artistic flourishes of batting, but he was too much of a realist to permit himself to do this. Every spectator in Bradman's heyday sensed that he was using not a bat so much as an axe dripping with the bowler's blood and agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Quietly Goes the Don | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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