Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Art for art's sake," says Erni, "simply does not exist. It's the idea that matters." The ideas that Erni tries to put on canvas are often understandable enough in themselves, but that does not make them any easier to picture. For example, how should an artist...
It will be difficult to forget the expression on Mlle. Noro's face when the blind girl returns home from the hospital with her vision restored. It is the most emotional scene this reviewer can recall having seen in a motion-picture. It reaches its peak when the wife introduces...
Many said: "Kinodoku, kinodoku (pity, pity)." That was what many had said during the war when U.S. prisoners had been led through Tokyo's streets. Tojo & friends, through their thought control police, had tried then to stop the expression of kinodoku. It persisted, even for them.
With China falling, Burma in chaos and Indo-China locked in civil war, the West might have been expected to rejoice at the Dutch victory. Instead, W. R. Hodgson, representing Australia at the United Nations, cried: "[This] is worse than what Hitler did to The Netherlands." This immoderate expression went...
Many of them had already tried other work. Said McCormick's Robert W. Henderson: "I'd seen war and I was selling paint. Not that selling paint was wrong, but it wasn't enough." Former Lawyer James W. Angell "never felt law meant anything. Here I'...