Word: realistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's a joint exhibit of the Graphic work of George Bellows at the Boston Public Library and the Boston University School for the Arts Gallery. Bellows was an American Realist painter of the 1920's--he's probably most famous for his painting of the knockout at the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Anyway, his stuff is good...
...More than 300 illustrations, including masterly sketches and photographs, represent the body of his work. Eakins was a relentless realist in a romantic era: his boxers look apprehensive and his surgeons, in proper dark suits, have blood on their hands. Though the color reproduction of some of the pictures is not as good as it might have been, readers will be delighted again by the sculling and outdoor scenes, and the great late portraits, with their fierce investigation of character...
...contemporary gallery are showing in the area this week. Katharine Porter's grid-like paintings are at MIT's Hayden Gallery, through December 21, and her "Works on Paper" are at the (believe it or not) Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, 7, Newbury St., along with the photo-realist paintings of Joel Janowitz, through December 28. Porter's work is very exciting, Janowitz's much less so, although I'd prefer his stuff to any of the current contemporary painting at the MFA. Entitled "Trends in Contemporary Realist Painting", the exhibit is a large room full of the most static...
...Friedrich, nature was an ethical teacher, a repository of religious experience. And when he found his pictures widely ignored (he was not a success in the marketplace), he succumbed to an almost paranoid embitterment, watching "realist" landscape triumph over his ideal form of it in the 1830s. For the naturalists, Friedrich had one last word. "If [the artist] sees nothing within him," he wrote, "then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which"-startling phrase-"one expects to find only the sick or the dead...
...REAL difference between the two traditions and their corresponding contemporary mentalities becomes apparent not in the seminar room, nor in the dining hall or common room. The contrast between the realists and the romantics becomes most evident in the movie theater, where films like Casablanca, La Guerre Est Finie and Five East Pieces attract people of both the realist and romantic schools. But their reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching...