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...painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S. This state of unawareness may not last much longer. For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28. The critics' campaign finally inspired the first major U.S. exhibit of Schiele's works. The show has been to Boston and Manhattan, will in time reach Pittsburgh and Minneapolis. Last week it opened...
...collection ranges from the Norwegian Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
German Atonalist Zillig wrote his opera The Sacrifice in 1937, but the work had only three performances until its present revival at West Germany's Kassel Opera House. Based on a play by the late expressionist writer Reinhard Goering,* Sacrifice tells the story of Robert Scott's last, tragic expedition to the South Pole in 1912. Its legendary hero is Lawrence Gates, who suffered frostbite and, realizing that he was jeopardizing the chances of the other members of the expedition, marched off into a blizzard in a suicidal sacrifice. In Zillig's treatment, the penguins enter...
Push and Pull. Romance faded but inspiration remained. Almost immediately, he began to attract attention. He became the pupil of Hans Hofmann, dean of the uninhibited "push and pull" technique. But no sooner was Rivers safely launched as a promising abstract expressionist than boredom...
...seasons, Venice's International Festival of Contemporary Music has more than once moved its audiences to near violence; in his 48 years, self-styled Non-Expressionist Composer John Cage, the "prepared piano" man, has reduced more than one audience to near lunacy. Last week U.S. Composer Cage and the Contemporary Music Festival linked forces in a concert at Venice's famed old La Fenice Theater. The explosion could be heard across the Grand Canal...