Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill myself for artists. The hell of it is I hate them," muttered Copper Heiress Peggy Guggenheim, 63, as she reminisced about the many hungry artists she has subsidized over the years. Last week, as angry as ever, Patroness Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either...
BRATTLE: Brecht and Weill's movie version of THE THREEPENNY OPERA dates from the latter days of the Weimar republic. Like much German expressionist film-making it is bitter and unhappy; it lacks much of Music and effervescence of the original...
...four years he still had not found himself. "Even then. I was seeking what Rimbaud seemed to have found: 'New forms that the inventions of the unknown demand.' " So. in 1953. he settled in Paris in a large studio on the Left Bank. There, his present abstract-expressionist style of painting began to emerge...
...painted by Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk), who, although a founder of the expressionist school of painting, has only lately begun to gain some of the fame of his turn-of-the-century contemporaries, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Considered a madman much of his life, the anguished and neurotic Munch was the son of a military surgeon who became a religious fanatic later in life and of a mother who died of tuberculosis when the boy was five. "I always felt," recalled Munch, "that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment...
...night last fall, 14 artists, critics and friends were gathered at the apartment of Abstract Expressionist John Ferren, and after getting themselves into a suitably angry mood by reading old Canaday columns, they decided to strike back. Last week they did so in a letter to the Times, denouncing Canaday for insinuating that they had the motives of "cheats, greedy lackeys or senseless dupes...