Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love which moves the Sun and the other stars"-could not be contained in everyday objects. "Alas," he wrote, "nature is ever changing, rapid are its metamorphoses. The laws of physiology are beginning to be disseminated; Daguerre, the moving picture, reproduce more exactly what the most faithful realist painters attempted to give the world. The most skillful artist is absolutely incapable of capturing the life of nature with traditional means...
...monotony was broken for Patty by regular visits from her lawyers and her parents. Catherine Hearst told an old friend in Atlanta, her home town, that her daughter "absolutely" needed psychiatric help, but that she was "not yet enough of a realist to be able to accept treatment. She is in and out of reality-and so nervous and pale. She's been through so much and she doesn't seem to be herself, of course...
...ultra-realist role is generally assigned to the documentary film because the camera is one of the best mechanisms we have for showing what the eye sees. But each frame has its four boundaries too, a filmmaker has to select a particular subject and determine what angle it's seen from, what kind of light it gets. And in the aesthetics of documentary film, there is a certain amount of selection going on when a camera-man decides how to react to the phenomenon of his mechanical eye being eyed back...
...example: a sentence in The Painted Word mentioning that Franz Kline once painted such social-realist subjects as "unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." Hughes says, "In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...
Robert Hughes comments: "Kline was a figurative painter to the end of the 1940s. The point, however, is that Wolfe presented Kline 'in the '30s' as a party hack, 'dutifully cranking out' paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...