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Word: capricho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are some weak patches at the beginning. For some reason, the curators did not include any of the triptychs that were Beckmann's crowning achievement as a pictorial fabulist; and so, despite the presence of two or three works as good as Aerial Acrobats, 1928--a Goya-like capricho rendered with grandly menacing stolidity--a visitor might not grasp why Beckmann could be considered the greatest German artist of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tracing the Underground Stream | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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