Word: realistes
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...exceptions. The two young people seem to have flung themselves into their coy positions only a moment ago, and they look as if they might just as hurriedly get up to go on about their business. The manicured landscape in the background is strangely sentimental for a realist like Hals; critics believe that he was using some fashionable symbology. A garden was the traditional home of Venus; the peacocks may refer to Juno, the protectress of marriage, and the ivy behind the young woman could be the symbol of fidelity...
...strictures into virtues. The third, and least, in some ways makes the most interesting case study. It was William Dean Howells. not Twain or James, who presided over American literature for 50 years, who fought the critical battles for realism, and who, as the country's first avowed realist, was righteously damned as a vulgarian and a sensationalist...
...Dostoevsky, the realities they wrote of were to him merely Russian realities; it would be impossible to write a Russian novel in the U.S., he wrote, because here life took on a more "smiling aspect." Biographer Edwin H. Cady presents evidence that the peculiar blindness of this reticent realist may have had a base in neurosis. The son of an Ohio printer, Howells was a weedy adolescent plagued by acute vertigo, hypochondria and a tendency to uncontrollable homesickness. His literary ability won him a job as city editor of a Cincinnati newspaper, but his first view of police court sent...
Abandoned Hope. But Boualem is far more a realist than a romantic. To Gardes's shock, he flatly refused to cooperate, even tipped off the local French commander that the outposts had fallen...
...explaining himself, the realist painter nowadays has to answer two realistic questions. Why does he not leave exact representation to the camera, which has been perfected to the point that it can catch the most fleeting expression, can render color in hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see things in virtual darkness? And why, if he must "get back to the image.'' does he not at least employ the gains of imagination and emotion brought to painting by impressionism, surrealism and abstraction? A picture called The Window Box, on display at Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery...