Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another worthwhile exhibition in the area isat the Busch-Reisinger Museum on Kirkland St. This often-neglected Harvard art museum specializing in Germanic and Scandinavian Art currently is displaying the D. Thomas Bergen Collection of German Expressionist Drawings through July 15. Open 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. weekday, closed weekends...
...best of the drawings are observations of the artists' own culture, observations which grow more subtle as the Expressionists develop a facility in using their new techniques. Kirchner's Street Scene (1912), the most widely known drawing in the Bergen collection, captures the process by which the artist evolved what he called "hieroglyphs" out of a chaos of line. The dark hats that emerge become, like printed words, a representation of "men in the street." Among the hatted males, a woman, defined by her dark hair, heavily shadowed eyes, and full-lipped mouth, stands alone. The outlines suggesting the passing...
...human body with nature was one of the major themes that Kirchner sought a style to express. "Developing a calligraphic style is just as difficult as learning to walk," Kirchner wrote. A drawing such as his large Nude on a Bed (1908), one of the highlights of the Bergen collection, shows that the search for style was a conscious endeavor, involving constant formal training. The work, in charcoal over pencil outline, seems a careful and fairly conventional life-study until one looks more closely at the way in which Kirchner is defining form. The legs and feet are oddly arresting...
...gestures of Expressionism are superfluous here; they encumber Grosz's stylistic ironies. The Expressionist style is no longer a progressive impulse, but a hindrance. Expressionism had transformed itself from a "movement" into a "school" whose rules had become obsolete. The selectivity of the Bergen collection makes it easy to carefully observe the development of Expressionism. These drawings are chronicles of individual and collective progress: a take-off, a jump, a landing at a new starting point...
...their honeymoon in telephone booths on various Greek islands. 'Im a hustler," she admits, but she does not like to be called a "packager." She considers herself instead a "liaison between the motion picture community and the artist." Mengers' well-pruned roster of artists includes Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Hackman, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Barbra Streisand, whose Mengers-arranged role in A Star Is Born last year earned the Brillo-headed diva about $10 million, minus the agency's 10%. (The story goes that when a frightened Streisand wanted to leave...