Word: expressionist
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...Hayden Gallery has put on a show of Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters. Abstract Expressionism as a movement put American art in the top position it has today, but these five painters--Gorky, Guston, Kline, deKooning and Pollack--would be outstanding even If they hadn't formed a style. The drawings are very different from their plantings, but just as visually exciting, and this show shouldn't be missed. The gallery's at 160 Memorial Drive, daily 10-4, Tuesdays also 6-9, through March...
...Strindberg play, apparently from his paranoid-expressionist period, at the Ex this weekend. Strindberg's best plays have an intensity sometimes locking in the work of his more famous older contemporary bean and been, who had a picture of Strindberg hanging in his study, know it. "It's gotten to the point that I can't work without his mad eyes staring down at me," he is supposed to have said...
...known works. How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959! What perversity seemed to lurk behind Rauschenberg's gesture of erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning and exhibiting the sheet! How dandyist an affront to spontaneous sincerity, the idea of painting two abstract expressionist canvases, Factum I and Factum II, almost identical down to the last drip...
...common attitude toward German expressionist artists like Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Marc, Karl Schmidt-Rottluffor Max Pechstein used to be that their work was a talented but provincial response to French Fauvism...
Impassioned Protest. They were the exception. The typical expressionist posture was one of impassioned protest against a world that seemed, especially to young people raised in the stiffly hierarchical coils of German society and then traumatized by the war, mechanized beyond redemption. It was the last expiring twitch of German romanticism, replete with hopes for primitivism, rural simplicity, the brotherhood of man and the death of authority, all of which, the expressionists naively thought, they could hasten to fulfillment by painting pictures. (It is only fair to recall that Hitler, who banned expressionism as "degenerate art" in 1933, shared this...