Word: realistes
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...Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins in a towel antedated the work of meticulous Realist William Harnett...
...They call me a psychologist," pro tested Dostoevski. "It is not true. I am merely a realist 'in the higher sense of the word, that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul...
...Minneapolis, where, inspired by the sight of students drawing Greek casts in the public library, he decided to study art. After four years of cast-copying and life classes, he got a scholarship at Manhattan's Art Students' League, where he studied under oldtime U. S. Realist John Sloan, Pundits Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. After a fling at commercial art (he once designed advertisements for Pluto Water), he was drafted into the A. E. F. and sent to France, where he drew maps for the Intelligence Corps, spent his spare time wandering through the galleries...
When Hollywood laid its golden fingers upon Mr. Steinbeck, the great realist and his following sadly shook their heads. You couldn't expect to reproduce Toilers of the Land in the gloss of Klieg lights. Agricultural proletarians on a budget of a few hundred dollars a day simply wouldn't look human. There were limits even to what Hollywood could...
...pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late Financier E. H. Harriman. who always bought at the bottom. Wall Street, long in the dumps (a Stock Exchange seat last week sold at $48,000-lowest since 1918), has to Optimist Pierce and Realist Merrill become a buy again...