Word: expressionist
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Both artists stay close to the broad traditions of surrealism and Expressionist social commentary. Neither cuts any new stylistic paths, but both are competent enough to produce well-finished convincing prints...
...absurdity." The form of her later pieces-ragged sheets of latex, irregular fiber-glass cylinders strewn at random on the floor, tangled webs of rubbery cord hanging from the ceiling like a three-dimensional version of Pollock drips-is partly an effort to give sculpture the fluidity of abstract-expressionist painting and partly a direct celebration of incongruity. Decoration, she believed, was "the only art sin." It was not a peccadillo she ever committed: ugly, difficult and raw though Eva Hesse's work is, it constitutes one of the most forthright statements in 1960s art. ·Robert Hughes
...been spilt this past decade on the question of who was or was not a "first-generation" Abstract Expressionist. Since America is apt to regard its artists as either seed bulls or vicarious aristocrats, the squabbles over lineage tend to be obsessive. But the historicist view of priorities has its shallows. Several fine painters who came to maturity in the 1950s have been blurred by the filter of Who Did What First...
...case in point is Sam Francis. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in the early '50s he provided Europe with its first intimations of those U.S. Abstract-Expressionist characteristics that would colonize Paris and London by the decade's end: the glowing, saturated color, the vigor of handling, the expansive scale. Yet Francis, who moved to Paris in 1950 and took Europe as his ground (with much traveling in Mexico and the Orient, especially Japan), suffered the common fate of Homo transatlanticus: rebuked for his Frenchery, he was nudged to the outside rim of the Abstract...
Fortunately, Lehmbruck's truncated output survived the Third Reich -though Hitler considered it, along with most expressionist art, degenerate -and in 1964 a special Lehmbruck museum opened in his native city, Duisburg. But though revered in Germany, Lehmbruck is not well known in America. To rectify this, the National Gallery in Washington has organized a Lehmbruck retrospective, which will run until Aug. 13, thus giving Americans a chance to assess the wistful and curiously poignant work of this haunted...