Word: expressionistic
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...director and designer for Batman: The Animated Series. The opening credits are the single best Batman movie that anybody has ever made. It's about 45 seconds and there's no dialogue or words on the screen. It's brilliantly done and looks like a 1930's German Expressionist movie...
...each idea rather than try to draw the same way each time. The drawings keep echoing different approaches and different styles depending on the content. In the new book “Breakdowns” each strip is drawn in a different way. Some of them are drawn looking expressionist. Some of them are drawn with some kind of simple-minded Lulu style. THC: Why did you think it was necessary to reprint the original 1978 “Breakdowns”? AS: My publisher offered me a chance to have it come out again, and I was delighted just...
...however. As early as the mid-1950s, inspired by Van Gogh and by the keen sunlight of Tangiers, where he was spending much of his time in a miserable love affair, he attempted to work in brighter colors and with looser brushwork. The result was a few congested, conventionally expressionist canvases. But the movement to a high-key palette also opened the way to the orange, lilac and pale beige backgrounds that make his work of the '60s and '70s so unnerving, precisely because the agonized figures struggle in such bright spaces...
...harris directed and starred in Pollock, a biopic of the Abstract Expressionist. Jackson Pollock splattered paint on canvas; Virgil and Everett splatter bad guys against the saloon wall. Their medium is an eight-gauge shotgun, but they're as dedicated to their craft as any other artist...
...Republic, and then The Nation, Manny built his caviar reputation. By now he was in New York, pursuing his three careers, befriending the right people in the Abstract Expressionist world and in magazine criticism. (Can't say whether he also hobnobbed with the top carpenters.) Like an assiduous upward-achiever, he was trying to get noticed; he didn't succeed enough to suit him. Even in his late collages, Manny was craving the attention of the art-critical establishment. A scrap on his painting Batiquitos reads: "Heaven to be noticed by Roberta Smith or [Adam] Gopnik...