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“George Bellows: Tragedies of War,” which opens tomorrow, centers around a large painting by early 20th century artist Bellows which depicts the gruesome dismemberment of a Belgian youth by German soldiers.
“Barricade,” which features German soldiers gathered behind a human shield of naked Belgian civilians, is both a meditation on war crimes and an artistic study of the human form. Bellows explores diverse body types, posed so as to be reminiscent of classical paintings.
Orcutt, who calls the Bellows work “emotional, provocative and compositionally well thought-out,” says there is a tension between responding to the barbaric events depicted and examining those depictions for their formal qualities.
The new exhibit places Bellows in the context of a long tradition of European artists’ portrayals of the ravages of war, including paintings by Edouard Manet, Honoré Daumier and Marie-Anne Collot. One Bellows lithograph in the series, “Massacre of the Dinant,?...
A humorless tribute to the Ramones is like a sexless tribute to James Brown, yet half the thrill of the new all-star Ramones tribute, We're a Happy Family, comes from hearing irony-impaired acts swing and miss at their heroes' greatest hits. James Hetfield bellows "I was a...