Word: exhibitionisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"What I can't understand," muttered one London art critic last week, "is that here's a nation that has just launched the first satellite, and yet they have sent us an exhibition 50 years old." Said a gallery manager: "It's like opening up the pages...
The clue, which most critics seized on, is that Soviet art still stands where Western European art was at the turn of the century. Hints have reached the outside that younger Moscow artists are painting clandestinely in the manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions...
Modigliani's Portrait of Kisling stands out as one of the most painterly works in this painter's exhibition, combining an almost archaic formal dignity with intensely human warmth.
The German Expressionists, notably Beckmann, command far greater attention here than has been shown them in such collections in the past. Only the arrangement of a large German exhibition in New York prohibited the further expansion of this group.
In Boston, where modern painting has long been neglected, this exhibition is of special importance. For anyone who seeks art in quality, profusion and diversity, it is a major event.