Word: realists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biographer as Surgeon. Soyer's group portrait is essentially a salute to the past, an evocation of his fellow realists and their combined debt to Eakins as the greatest painter in the American realist tradition. Soyer unabashedly searched the past for precedent, modeled his composition on Fantin-Latour's 1864 Homage to Delacroix. He prepared himself by making separate portraits of each figure from life, except for the late Reginald Marsh, whom Soyer had painted 24 years earlier; he simply copied the old portrait into the final 6-ft. 8-in. by 7-ft. 4-in. canvas...
...native regional realist of the Southwest, equally prized by Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, Kurd, now 60, is trying to preserve the look of a fading way of U.S. life. Like his brother-in-law, Andrew Wyeth, he finds all his subject matter, says he, "within five miles of my home." His ranch, The Sentinel, ranges over 2,200 acres where he raises cattle and, in less arid parts, apples, peaches and pears. It is not a big spread by Western standards, but profit is not its true purpose...
...Rindge Tech it was King the realist who hammered home the that Negroes must win and use to win their rights...
Song over Moscow, for Western audiences, is a cinematic curio, a satirical Russian musical about young love embattled by status seekers, bureaucratic bumblers and the apartment shortage. Giddy and boisterous, the film gulps down its pill of social realist picture-painting and produces some fascinating side effects. It affords a sly peek behind the Iron Curtain, and seems to take all its bows facing West...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. The museum pays tribute to American Realist Edward Hopper with the second retrospective in 15 years. Some 180 oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings date from 1908, but the emphasis is on work done since 1950. Through...