Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Did Hungary's Freedom Fighters hope to win? The answer is that, unlike the Poles before them, who infiltrated the party apparatus and to an extent controlled their break from Moscow, they did not pause to think that far ahead. Their motto might well have been that of another great...
Before the Russians came back in tenfold strength, Budapest had its famous five days of freedom. There was heady talk of quitting the satellite Warsaw Pact and proclaiming neutrality. The romantic Hungarians had gone too far: back came the Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped...
Wyeth has won acclaim (TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest...
All of these old-hat tricks were cleverly combined by Playwright N. Richard Nash in The Rainmaker, a pleasant bit of focus-pocus that scored high on TV, and then ran for 3½ months on Broadway during the 1954-55 season. Sold to Hollywood for $350,000, the play...
...truth that U.S. painting has proved time and again is that realism and romanticism need not be mutually exclusive. It was Washington Allston who first added a romantic dimension to the nation's art, early in the igth century. His work breathes originality, but, as he himself remarked, "Every mind would appear original if every man had the power of projecting his own into the minds of others." Edward Hopper, who also has that power, puts it more concretely: "What lives in a painting is the personality of the painter...