Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made useful or decorative objects to enhance daily life. For American pioneers, making tools and furnishings was a necessity. But the 20th century widened horizons by elevating the craftsman's role. The Bauhaus influence in America allowed the artisan to become a partner of the architect. Later, the abstract expressionist movement in painting and sculpture, with its emphasis on individual statement, swept through woodshops and pottery studios as well as painters' ateliers. The show's organization is a declaration that craft has moved beyond the strictures of the useful and even the decorative. Its four divisions are the Object...
...work is so that he could see it better, because neither the coloring nor the scenes bears much resemblance to the stark cinematography in the film. If I did not know the creator's name, I might think this book was the work of some mad German Expressionist who overdosed on Van Gogh paintings and samurai movies. A really good mad German Expressionist, I should...
...best paintings of our century. They belonged to Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), the visionary Austrian painter whose career spanned seven decades and not a few places of exile. Born in the world of the Emperor Franz Josef, he died in that of Reagan and Thatcher, just before the expressionist revival of the '80s took hold. Recent years have seen major shows of such expressionist masters as Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, and now the 100th anniversary of O.K.'s birth is marked by a retrospective at London's Tate Gallery. (The exhibition runs through Aug. 10, and will...
...artist as cannibal, artist as criminal) were subtexts to the main theme of artist as primitive, untrammeled by conventions of any kind. O.K.'s letters were full of nostalgia for the innocence and vitality he felt had been lost to Europe under the crust of bourgeois sublimation. As an expressionist, he was one of the last children of Rousseau, and he idealized the noble savage within himself. That this savage was the cultural artifact of the middle classes whose values he longed to escape was no mean irony. Kokoschka's shenanigans failed to throw the burghers into the turmoil...
...good late Picasso. Nowhere does this come out better than in Theseus and Antiope, the huge canvas he began in 1958 and worked on intermittently for 16 years, leaving it unfinished at the time of his death. If one can speak of neo-expressionism by an original expressionist, this painting is it. Everything about it, from the violently suffused colors to the lumpish drawing of the Amazon queen's feet, runs close to satire. Never, one suspects, has classical myth been rendered with such homely, indeed suburban, protagonists. But for the burning temples in the background one might suppose...