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...something that repeats itself in all good art," Beckmann said, "that is artistic sensuousness, combined with artistic objectivity toward the thing represented." Beckmann subjected even his nightmares to a harsh, objective light and portrayed them with a concrete reality that drew him acclaim, along with George Grosz and Otto Dix, as a leader of Neue Sachlichkeit, or new objectivity group...
...Royal Suite of Los Angeles' venerable Ambassador Hotel, a man clad only in dark-rimmed glasses and a long white nightshirt with red polka dots sat watching television. On the screen, Richard Dix was battling his way against great odds through a 1941 horse opera called The Round-Up. After many a cliffhanging episode, the Good Guys vanquished the Bad Guys, and the Grand Old West once again was made fit for Decent Folks...
...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...
...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...