Word: realistes
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...When he died last week at the age of 84, in the Washington Square studio where he had lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist-but in the lambent light of a brooding romantic who saw beauty in the humblest barber pole...
Died. Edward Hopper, 84, dean of U.S. realist painters; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary. We have received a great deal of tangible support -- a generally favorable press. TV and radio coverage, supporting telegrams from NSA and the University of Buffalo, several encouraging letters and cards, flowers from unknown supporters cartons of cigarettes and Realist reprints for our amusement...
...Actually," he continued later, "I don't paint cows because they are cows. You have to go under that surface quality. I'm not sure people would go for me if I were a pure realist." And his present popularity? "I'm just appalled and amazed at the way in which people are interested in my paintings. I think it's because I happen to paint things that reflect the basic truths of life: sky, earth, friends, the intimate things. People are drawn to my work by common feelings that go beyond...
CRAZY QUILT. Director John Korty fashions a modern fable about a marriage between a realist (Tom Rosqui) and a romantic (Ina Mela), who learn to accept their differences after ten years of mutual misunderstanding...