Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging Emil Nolde became the only major German expressionist to join the Nazi Party. Much good it did him. For all his Frisian peasant conservatism, the Nazis soon called him a "degenerate" modern artist and stripped his works from German museums. In 1941, he was forbidden to sell his art or even to paint. At 73, Nolde retreated from Berlin to his summer home in Seebull, not far from his birthplace on the North Sea coast-but he did not stop painting. To his diary he revealed: "I still hold my head high, and only to you, my little pictures...
...artist, who was born Marisol Escobar in Paris 36 years ago, of Venezuelan parents, studied in New York under the noted abstract expressionist, Hans Hofmann. Her much-sought-after work is in several U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Modern Art and the Whitney. She usually works more slowly than she did on her TIME commission, will spend as much as three months on a single piece in the company of her cairn terrier, Trolli...
...have encouraged the production of icons, holy images, and other good luck charms that have no artistic value outside the church." The church also has its missionaries-the dealers. Among the leading ones right now is Manhattan's Leo Castelli. A few years ago, the story goes, Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning remarked, "That son of a bitch Castelli, he has the nerve to sell anything. He could even sell beer cans." Whereupon Jasper Johns proceeded to create his famous pop-art beer cans. Since the emergence of pop, with its move back to representation, abstraction has ceased...
...effort to define their paintings within a limited pictorial space, many of the abstract-expressionist painters, in the fifties, dispensed with frames altogether. Without frames, their pictures lose the illusionistic window effect and, rather than continuing off into an imaginary pictorial space behind a frame, they stop at the edges of the canvas and are entirely contained within it. In effect, these paintings become objects contained within the room in which the viewer is standing. Though his motives are different, Warhol uses the same technique to form a continuum between the space and environment of his pictures and the proximate...
...Beethoven since Artur Schnabel. "The remarkable quality about Lateiner's playing," says Composer Elliott Carter, "is his depth of understanding." It is an understanding that Lateiner has distilled from scholarly scrutiny of the original manuscripts of the music he plays. A collector by inclination (rare books, German expressionist drawings), he has amassed an impressive number of sketches and first-edition scores by Beethoven, Mozart and other composers, is often asked by other musicians to decipher the Sanskrit-like scratchings of Beethoven's notes and handwriting...