Word: expressionist
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...hardiest roots has been the long Polish tradition of abstract art, some of whose practitioners date their conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling block between themselves and the regime was their Catholicism," a recent U.S. visitor noted. "For the intellectual, it was abstract...
...German Expressionist Emil Nolde, colors had a life of their own: "Weeping and laughing, hot and holy, like love songs and eroticism, like chants and magnificent chorales. Vibrating, they peal like silver bells and clang like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death." The "sweetness, often sugariness" of Renoir and Monet was not to his harsher taste, and he complained bitterly in the years before World War II that "their art, because it meets popular taste, is elected darling of the world...
...German Artist." Nolde himself would have scorned such a simple pigeonhole. "Intellectuals and literati call me an expressionist," he once exploded. "I do not like this narrow classification. A German artist, that I am." Born Emil Hansen in the north Schleswig village of Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given...
...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...