美国评论家克里斯坦(Lincoln Kirstein)称20世纪50年代美国战后出现的抽象表现主义之外的一个重要画派为“象征写实主义”,他称这是“理智的胜利,而非装饰、即兴、片段的受害者,证实了恒久的艺术作品是思想的表现,而非手工业劳动或单纯自恋、自怜的证明”,并且在较早的时候就确立了乔治·图克(George Tooker)在此 American critic Lincoln Kirstein called an important painting school outside the post-war abstract expressionism of the 1950s “Symbolism Realism,” which he called “the triumph of reason, not of ornament, of improvisation , The victim of the passage, confirms the permanent artistic work as a manifestation of thought, rather than evidence of manual work or narcissism, self-pity, ”and earlier established George Tooker’s this