Word: expressionist
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...very distinct personalities, just as John was the intellectual, Paul was the suave, good-looking one, George was the mystical one, Ringo was the whimsical one, just as the Beatles had these distinct personalities as human beings, they do as artists. John was an illustrator, Paul is an abstract expressionist, Ringo is a pop artist, and George had the good sense to know he wasn’t an artist,” he said, laughing...
...evidenced in 2005’s “Surfing on Acid,” a painting dominated by red, green, and yellow oozing over a hot pink background that recalls the color fields of Ellsworth Kelley and Mark Rothko. Though Heilmann identifies with the abstract expressionist movement, she prefers to see herself as offering a “postmodern look” that allows her to convey emotion more directly. She says that her work is “like meditating.” Heilmann’s relaxed demeanor enabled students and community members to examine her method...
...comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie...
...have never seen these works before.” According to Netzer, the paintings will be labeled as “problems for study.” The authenticity of Pollock’s paintings has more than scholarly significance. An undisputed painting by the famed American abstract expressionist, “No. 5, 1948,” recently sold for $140 million, making it the world’s most expensive masterpiece. The Harvard investigation was a collaboration between Harry Cooper, a curator of modern art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum; Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation...
...works in question include four paintings by the Viennese master Gustav Klimt, and a famous Berlin street scene by the German expressionist Ernest Ludwig Kirchner sold earlier this month for nearly $50 million. So-called "restituted" art - pieces either directly looted by Nazis, or ones their owners were forced to sell for below-market value to escape Hitler's regime - made up more than half of the record $491 million total sale at Christie's in New York earlier this month. Last summer, Klimt's most famous painting, the "Golden Adele," which had hung in a Vienna museum for more...