Word: expressionistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robbins said that Fineberg, who concentrates on early modern German expressionist painting, and Seidel, with her specialty in medieval and Gothic art, will complement each other as curators. The Busch collection includes German art ranging from the late middle ages to the present...
Died. Adolph Gottlieb, 70, one of the founders of the abstract expressionist school of painting along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning; after a long illness; in New York City. Rebelling against the social realism that dominated painting in the '40s, Gottlieb created "pictographs"-checkerboard patterns of squares filled with hieroglyphic-like imagery. In the late '50s he began a series of what he called "Bursts," huge canvases with floating blobs of color that sometimes resemble suns poised over jagged horizons. Gottlieb, whose works have sold for as much as $30,000, is represented...
Keep Your Pantheon is a German-expressionist investigation into the theories of R.D. Laing, and the schizophrenia inherent in strivings for spiritual rebirth--"Changing the pantheon," as the somewhat clumsy translation has it. At the Hasty Pudding Club...
There was also generally in the surrealists a theatrical state of mind, which in the case of Paul Delvaux became virtually a stock in trade. Originally an expressionist, Delvaux was a latecomer to surrealism, converted by an exhibition of works by Chirico, Magritte and Dali that he saw in Brussels in 1934 when he was 37. And though he is one of the more durable surrealist artists, his imagery-as the selection of his work here indicates-constantly hovers on the edge of cliche. The Delvaux "look" is unmistakable: an empty street of neoclassical façades, a 19th century...
...value of Pollock's work increased recently after the Australian National Museum purchased the American expressionist's "Blue Poles" for $2 million...