Word: busches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horror, despair, chaos and grief is bemoaned vehemently and emotionally at Busch-Reisinger's "War and Aftermath: German art in relation to the First World War." The Teutonic emotionalism of these artists' immediate reactions to terror makes the exhibition an important psychological document. The reactions themselves make it an historical record. Its value as art is a question apart...
...indeed paradoxical that Kurt Schwitters, representing the Dada school, created in contemptuous revolt against established canons of aesthetics, should appear at Busch-Reisinger this month as a champion of those very values. Gathering bits and scraps of color and print in the form of collages, Schwitters manipulates a poetic play of shape and hue, charming, intimate, yet positive and aesthetically unequivocal. Paul Klee's lithograph, "Destruction and Hope," not his best in that form, sings out with more hope than destruction because it contains more poetry than pathos...
...slangy, yellow-nightgowned infant who achieved fame as The Yellow Kid,† was promptly snatched by Hearst for the Sunday Journal's eight-page color supplement. A year later, the Journal dragooned 19-year-old Staff Artist Dirks into composing a cartoon based on German Artist Wilhelm Busch's venerable Max und Moritz drawings...
...turned back the clocks atop Busch-Reisinger Museum or in the Music Building or Holden Chapel, perhaps indicating a certain obliviousness to worldly things on the part of the artistically-minded...
...Busch Reisinger Museum is currently showing a loan exhibition of German watercolors, drawings and prints from 1905 to 1955, sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany. This midcentury review provides an excellent background for two other important local showings, one of the work of Kathe Kollowitz that will open shortly at the Gropper Gallery, the other an exhibit of works by Lionel and Lux Feininger currently at the Cambridge Art Association Gallery. These artists, with whom we intend to deal in subsequent reviews, very conveniently represent two major aspects of Modern German Art. Kathe Kollowitz illustrates expressionism and its social...