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Parisians, who have long been glutted and lately bored with the abstractions of their own compatriots, may be somewhat intrigued by the extremes to which abstraction has been stretched in the U.S. But a traveling U.S. exhibit which included the works of such conservatives as Hopper, Burchfield and Wyeth would do more than intrigue the French. It might even show them that the U.S. has a solid and fruitful tradition...
Bruegel's earthy realism has found a not-so-earthy reflection in contemporary U.S. art. Genre painters and magazine illustrators have learned from him, and to such realists as Andrew Wyeth and Henry Koerner he is the greatest of old masters...
...critics liked best about the American show was the modern realism. Wrote one critic: "The most interesting American artists to us Germans seem to be those whose convictions are most different from those of the School of Paris [Picasso, etc.]" Singled out for special cheers: Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth...
...Andrew Wyeth, says TIME, is a puzzle to critics, but not to laymen. Will some layman . . . kindly explain to us why Young America is part worker, part soldier, drives a red bicycle to the left of the road, is moving at a fast clip but getting nowhere, and isn't looking where he's going? Young America, my foot! This jerk is right out of the Kremlin. LEWIS WILLIAMS Philadelphia...
...other critics of Young America, Artist Wyeth has said: "The picture is not satirical and does not represent things that people have read into...