Word: dix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student awakened each morning in his Leverett Towers suite by the soft eleven o'clock chimes from Mem Church, nothing could seem more remote than 5 a.m. revellie at Fort Dix. Yet that bugle call is sounding nearer every day. As a result of President Kennedy's Executive Order dropping all married men to the bottom of the IA draft pool, the draft is moving well into the college years. According to General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, "in a few months a student with a IA rating will be lucky if he can reach age 22 without...
Disasters of War. Dix's new renown is his second installment of fame. He had a burst of popularity in the early '20s. and the Stuttgart exhibition, with 115 graphics made between 1911 and 1928, shows why. Most of them are scenes of World War I, sketched with a fury on plain brown wrapping paper. Their strident picturing of cavernous shell craters, socket-eyed cadavers, skull-like gas masks. bloody vines of barbed wire and battered nerves has much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters...
...Dix had been a machine gunner in the war, and his drawings did to war-weary Germans what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic...
...French treated P.W. Dix thoughtfully, supplying him with paints to do altarpieces for their barracks chapel. Freed in 1946, Dix retreated into the Biblical subject matter that has preoccupied him for the past decade. "With a Madonna, everybody understands what you're saying." he thought. Critics dismissed these works as oldfashioned, although there is little piety to his garishly colored, grotesque Biblical scenes. Their raw outlines, squeezed from tubes, and their hacked surfaces betray the same tortured view of man as his early drawings...
Beauty in Ugliness. Today Dix lives on the idyllic, alpine shore of Lake Constance in a house whose walls shelter the bulk of his works. "I considered them so important that I didn't want to sell them," he explains. At 72. wispy, wiry Dix no longer paints. "I feel I don't have to say that much any more. There comes a time when one has to look back." His summation: "Nietzsche told me that there's beauty in ugliness. That is what has intrigued me all my life...