Word: expressionist
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...from French comics and an influence from art," he says. "I was very impressed during the 1970s with French comics that were very high contrast black and white drawings by artists like Tardi or Hugo Pratt, who came from Italy. And I was very influenced in art by the expressionist work of George Grosz. I was not very fond of superhero books. For me comics are not so different from literature or movies or theater or the other cultural things I took in during the period of the book...
...action takes place on a field of blinding plain white, giving the stage the feel of a canvas. “Play” is almost the wrong word for what is to occur there—“production” is much more fitting for this expressionist happening. Landmarks on stage are eschewed for two panes of glass, and everything is either white or clear. The stage’s distinguishing mark is its emptiness...
...projects to his credit in Japan, including eight museums, the man is so little known in the U.S. that one baffled well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, thinking the museum had selected an Italian architect, Tony Gucci. In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture, of Frank Gehry's voluptuous Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, MOMA has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version of the glass-and-steel box that the museum first championed in the 1930s, years before that style...
DIED. LEON GOLUB, 82, U.S. artist who painted monumental, brutal figures symbolizing the destructive nature of human ambition and who was hailed as a pioneer during the Neo-Expressionist era of the 1980s; in New York City. When he began his career in the 1950s, his subjects were largely mythological, but by the 1970s, he had moved into politics with the anti--Vietnam War series Assassins, and he continued in that vein in the 1980s with images of global military violence called Mercenaries...
...bringing back the talisman the boy gets folded into the shape of an envelope and returned via post to his parents. It goes on, but you get the idea. The nonsensical story exists only as a reason to make pictures. Printed with deep-blue ink, James' unconventional style evokes expressionist woodcuts. However, the lack of any real point in "The Octopi" ultimately detracts from its vaguely amusing pleasures...