Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began as a realist ("That was what we inherited"), passed through a stage that was "allied to surrealism," finally went wholly abstract. By 1947 he was already turning out compositions of floating colors. In the years since, Rothko has achieved an almost elemental simplicity, which he likes to explain in more complicated fashion. ''In our inheritance we have space, a box in which things are going on," he says. "In my work there is no box; I do not work with space. There is a form without the box, and possibly a more convincing kind of form...
...life as well....I can only say that the older I grow the more disillusioned I become with the apostles of reality. It is to reality, we are told, to things as they are, that we must give attention. I am fully persuaded that it is not the realist but, rather, the imaginative man who sees things as they really are.... The imaginative man looks around and behind the self-evident facts, seeing them in their total setting, in all their implications: and in the end I am backing him, and not the realist, to come upon the truth." ARCHIBALD...
...only two, both fantasies, seem to have been brewed in the same kettle. The longest story, A Family Matter, has everything needed to make a full-length novel, but in its 44 pages it tells a good deal more than most novels about family life. A snappish, unblinkered realist comes to visit his three sons, all married and none of them fond of the old man. His avowed purpose is to make up his mind with which one of them he will live. From this homely, commonplace situation, Elliott contrives a remarkably interesting series of confrontations that range from...
...Realist Redmond knows that he may be the first to go after the integration turmoil passes. Much of his job involves dealing with the state legislature, which has already fired him. "If I can't perform that part of my job," says he, "we'll have to move...
...that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed pre-war production figures. Sizzle soap, sizzle...