Word: expressionist
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...Oslo through Aug. 28, and London's Royal Academy of Arts gets its turn from Oct. 1-Dec. 11. Despite several arrests in the case, The Scream and Madonna are still missing, but their disappearance has only heightened the public's fascination with the enigmatic Expressionist's work. tel: (47-23) 49 35 00; www.munch.museum.no
...Oslo through Aug. 28, and London's Royal Academy of Arts gets its turn from Oct. 1-Dec. 11. Despite several arrests in the case, The Scream and Madonna are still missing, but their disappearance has only heightened the public's fascination with the enigmatic Expressionist's work. tel: (47-23) 49 35 00; www.munch.museum.no
...fact, Ellsworth Kelly, a postwar American Abstract Expressionist, created the piece, which is entitled “Red, Blue.” Kelly’s work includes both painting and sculpture, and focuses almost entirely on the hard lines of the geometric, but it is without the type of rigidity that characterizes the square terraces and windows of Peabody Terrace...
DIED. FRITZ SCHOLDER, 67, Expressionist painter and sculptor best known for bringing a fresh eye to so-called Indian art in the 1960s and '70s; of complications from diabetes; in Scottsdale, Ariz. One-quarter Native American, he initially refused to paint Indians, saying he hated the usual sentimental images of them as noble savages. In 1967, vowing to depict "real, not red," he changed his mind. His "Indian" series included the still striking rendering of a Native American man wrapped in an American flag, based on 19th century prison photographs of Indians dressed in surplus flags after their tribal regalia...
...slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted. In the name of socialism, the revolution turned its back on these quintessentially humane and lyrical buildings...