Word: brushworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painted with broad brushwork reminiscent of Georges Rouault's (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), the show's 58 pictures depicted shadowy landscapes, sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...
...canvas, and after a while, it naturally became very jealous of the other paintings which were being exhibited in the same museum. Never, during its entire lifetime, had this forlorn little collection of palette-scrapings experienced the supreme thrill of receiving such adjectival orchids as "significant form," or "masterly brushwork." not once in its whole career had it been afforded the pleasure of being designated as "the work of that up-and-coming young artist from the west." And, as is often the case, there was no particular reason for such neglect; the size of the piece was just small...