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SHORTLY after World War II, a grim, cliff-faced German named Max Beckmann arrived in the U.S. He was without honor in his own country; Hitler had branded him a "degenerate painter" and hounded him from the land. He had spent the war years in semi-hiding in Amsterdam, developing his own rainbow-hued brand of German expressionism. Imported by Washington University in St. Louis to teach art, Beckmann set about changing the course of American painting, and kept at it until his death in 1950. Although he himself was never an abstract painter, the New York school of abstract...
Cursed and Blessed. Beckmann's pictures almost always symbolize the uncontrollable, or what he calls the "rough," but his vocabulary of yells, groans and occasional sighs of delight is drawn strictly from the natural world. "As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensualness," he once wrote, "I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness...
...Dine's The Smiling Workman featured the artist himself lettering "I love what" in blue paint, "I'm doing" in orange paint, and then emptying the paint buckets over his head. This was meant to show "the feeling of being a happy compulsive painter, which is what...
Died. Reginald ("Rex") Brasher, 91, Brooklyn-born gambler, adventurer, painter-ornithologist whose 874 plates include every known type of North American bird, outnumbering by far the work of his predecessor, John James Audubon; in New Milford, Conn...
...with Gerard first, but auntie soon follows. Author Wilson's handling of the love scenes may be summed up in one cozy Briticism ("Her mouth tasted like warm tea"). Some of Nunne's other friends are very different cups of tea, notably, a red-mopped painter named Oliver Glasp, who dilly-Dalis between nudes and Crucifixions. Wilson's defense of such characters is clearly Terence's "Nothing human is alien...