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The New Realism |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: James Cooper |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 2,205 Words, 13,222 Characters |
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Most contemporary American realist painters are unknown to the general public, whereas the names of a great many abstract artists are familiar due in large part to the enthusiastic exposure granted by the art establishment and the liberal media.
Occasionally an event disturbs the complacency of the establishment such as the appearance of William Bailey's handsomely realistic Portrait of S, which was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine (June 7, 1982) under the provocative title The Revival of Realism.
The senior art critic of the New York Times, however, was quick to dismiss the new wave of realism in a highly critical essay that began with the sweeping statement: "Realism, like influenza, is always with us."
Despite the lengthy denunciation of realist painting in g...
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...the late twentieth century is written it will note that the current modernist establishment fought against change as blindly as the academicians of the nineteenth century fought to repress the Impressionists. It is ironic that those same modernist critics who love to invoke the history of modern art are themselves as stubbornly opposed to the important new art form flowering in their midst.
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