Word: contradictor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This seems likely even though Beckmann himself believed that "every form of significant art from Bellini to Henri Rousseau has ultimately been abstract." But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time. And in the Guggenheim's show one sees the very peak of his work: seven of the nine triptychs (three-panel paintings, based on the format of church altarpieces) that he painted immediately before and during his exile...