Word: expresisonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oscar Kokoschka rebels against the austerity of early Expresisonist geometricism. (This style, incidentally, is well illustrated in the exhibit by Heckel's Couple and August Macke's strident Three Female Nudes.) Kokoschka's glowing, passionate lithographs, based on religious themes, have a piety to them that the harsher variants of Expressionism could not possibly allow. The culminating work of this fine show is the superb portrait of the famed German director Max Reinhardt; it glows with the tempestuousness and conviction of genius...