Word: abstractionism
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As an icon of escape, Wolfgang Mattheuer's Die Flucht des Sisyphos (The Flight of Sisyphus), from 1972, is unmistakable. A worker is suspended in mid-stride, fleeing the path of the stone he has been pushing uphill; he's both dodging the plummeting boulder and heading for an idyllic...
The brutality of World War I appalled most who were caught up in it. One British volunteer was Paul Nash, a young painter who before the conflict produced gentle, wispy landscapes that recalled English visionaries like Samuel Palmer. After his appointment as an official war artist, though, Nash abandoned pastoral...
Beckmann's work doesn't fit easily into the approved history of modern art, in which the main lines move resolutely toward abstraction and for the most part pass through Paris and New York. There's not much room in that story for a German who all his life remained...
Suarez-Orozco cites an “intellectual abstraction and elegance” in Farmer, mentioning grand-scale discussions that Farmer has engaged in with University President Lawrence H. Summers.
China's big Cannes hope, Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly, is an epic set during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. It's got lots of action (including a splendidly complex shoot-out in a train station), a starry performance by Zhang Ziyi and enough period atmosphere to clog your lungs...