Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until his death in 1925, Corinth worked night and day. He opposed the new German move toward expressionism, but his lustiness and his awareness of death gave his art a touch of personal agony that overwhelmed the visible world he painted. "True art," he wrote, "is to depict unreality." And his brusquely applied colors readied the public for the subsequent makers of German expressionism, such as Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka. In awe, one expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, admitted of Corinth: "At first he was mediocrity. At the end, truly great...
Died. Naomi Jacob, 80, British novelist and lifelong feminist, veteran of suffragette picket lines, author of more than 40 novels (Jacob Ussher, Four Generations), many of which depict courageous heroines struggling against hard-drinking, miserly husbands; of a heart attack; in Sirmione, Italy...
...with Lyndon's help, nurtured a floundering Austin radio station into a multimillion-dollar corporation. "She can read a balance sheet as well as a truck driver can read a road map," says a former associate. As proof of that, there are now public Johnson balance sheets that depict Lady Bird's sizable financial holdings-even more sizable than her husband...
...enjoys no official patronage at home. Rabin's four fantasy cityscapes are semiabstractions: a City and Moons balances glowing oval shapes against the dark grid of hazy architectural forms; an American Landscape shows giddy skyscrapers in a land he has never visited. Visions of London and Paris both depict painfully precise, oversized postage stamps (one with Queen Elizabeth) that boldly refute the perspective...
HAITIAN PRIMITIVES-Art D'Haiti, 49 Grove St. near Sheridan Square. The small gallery is crowded with landscapes and figures in dark-bright colors and voluptuous lines that depict the rituals of Haitian life and evoke the mystery, romance and anguish of the enchanting little Creole country. Thirty works by 27 of Haiti's leading primitive painters, including Philome and Senéque Obin, André Pierre, Pauleus Vital, Hector Hyppolite. Through...