Word: expressionistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist and surrealist elements...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...
...ballet dancer the modern expressionist dance is a heinous horror; to the expressionist dancer the ballet is merely pretty movement to titillate the fancies of tired businessmen. The modernists have long held entrenched positions in arty lofts and studios, have expressed sexless conceptions of revolt and starvation to the tootling of oboes and the thumping of drums. In Broadway theatres on Sunday nights these restless, grim-eyed chorines illustrate the serious things of life before coal-black backdrops, attract audiences of starry-eyed worshippers at a $2.50 top (standees...
...exhibition now at the Germanic Museum is a group of oils by the German expressionist Paul Kleinschmidt and several water colors and drawings of animals by Dodo Borchardt-Sattler. The exhibit will run through March...