Word: expressionist
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...painting of things from direct observation, warts and all -- is dead or, at best, irrelevant. You may quote the human figure from mass-media sources, by means of photography, silk-screen and so forth. Or stylize the guts out of it, so that it approaches abstraction. Or else run "expressionist" variants on it, which have nothing to say about any struggle with the real and resistant motif, since no such struggle is encouraged...
...stuff -- by Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon and others. Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American cult of dumb popular therapeutics. In the 1980s, American neo-Expressionist artists shoved their excremental clods of paint at us with the self-evident pleasure that eight-year-olds take in dirty words. Patheticism is the conceptual version of this: no paint, just the words. Poo- poo, caca, and screw you, Daddy...
...ingredients of this marvelously unclassifiable entertainment, which is having a limited run ending this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, are a witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of wheezy parlor waltzes, barroom blues, moon-June pop and ersatz Kurt Weill. What gives it fizz is gallows humor, antiwar mockery, sweet sentiment and an inventiveness that more than honors the imperative laid down years ago by Sergei Diaghilev to Jean Cocteau: "Astonish...
Instead he turned to incongruous subjects that didn't fit his achieved style: huge versions of Abstract Expressionist brushstrokes, perversely rendered in flat color and Benday dots; or, most successfully, mirrors. The Mirror paintings of 1969-72 remain entrancing because of all Lichtenstein's later work, they are the only ones in which his now cleaned-up techniques allowed for a degree of mystery and ambiguity: they are perfect and icy, and reflect nothing but themselves -- a proleptic comment on his own future work...
TOLEDO. In this medieval city in central Spain 67 km south of Madrid, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, or El Greco (1541-1614), spent his later years creating a prodigious number of paintings. Nineteen of his highly expressionist works, including the dramatic landscape View of Toledo, are again on display at the recently renovated El Greco Museum. Temporarily closed for restoration is the adjoining Casa del Greco, which contains period furniture, paintings and personal belongings...