Word: expressionist
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...composer at a time when tonality, the structure which had supported music for over 300 years, was finally sinking under the bloated burden of its own chromaticism into an anarchic morass. The ferment which resulted from the destruction of the old order gave rise to Schoenberg's great expressionist compositions like the sextet Verklarte Nacht, which seems to breathe in that decaying, sickeningly rich atmosphere, and Pierrot Lunaire, which for many is the ultimate expression of diseased, depraved emotions. Schoenberg drew creative sustenance from the advancing disorder of musical forms and he hastened its progress, until by 1916, he felt...
...fund of Bauhaus history. Instead, they're interested because the name connotes an austere functionalism in design that has infiltrated 1970s American life everywhere from typography to the mass-produced Marcel Breuer steel tubular chair. They'll wonder how this regulated style ever evolved from these 51 varied graphics--expressionist, primitive, whimsical. realistic, neo-classical, and architectural. And the Busch-Reisinger is not helping anyone by providing enlightening text or more visual information. No linear historical perspective adds to the horizontal historical sample of European...
...look at Kline's work suggests a third possibility: namely, that the museum mail-order art survey course your man Hughes took included only one line about Kline (probably "Franz Kline -20th-cent. Am. abstract expressionist"). It's no doubt news to Hughes, but Kline went through a period of realism, including social realism. This is a painting by Franz Kline (not Ben Shahn) called Ex-Servicemen and the Unemployed (1941). As your man says, "One example will do for all." I'm afraid that leaves us with just one elementary howler: the one named Robert...
...party hack, 'dutifully cranking out' paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...
...rest of the magazine, with its ads for Helena Rubenstein face masks and articles on abstract expressionist painters, serves only to reinforce, the misconception that the women's movement is only for the well-off and well-educated. The women Ms. directs its articles at need its help a lot less than other women in this country. The women Ms. attracts can also be seen reading Susan Sontag's battle on feminism with Adrienne Rich in the current New York Review of Books, Young women, fat women, poor women, ugly women and old women have no place to go--except...