Word: expressionistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Easily the most impressive contribution to the magazine is Chuck Sabel's Play Without Passion, a deft, academic's treatment of the last years in the life of George Buchner, the 19th century German playwright who presaged the emotionally charged theater of the Expressionist school...
...French painter and tapestry designer; in Paris. Together with Jean Lirçat, Gromaire became widely known for reviving France's long-dormant tradition of tapestry making at Aubusson during the World War II German occupation; before that, he achieved international recognition with the showing of his striking expressionist painting, La Guerre. In 1951 he won critical acclaim for his series of New York "landscapes" depicting the city as "Dantesque...
Some angry young black artists consciously paint black. Others of the generation that came of artistic age during the time of the new black militancy are painting and sculpting in styles ranging from expressionist to minimal, and they resist being classified racially. All these artists generally resent white sponsorship, even while recognizing that they have to deal with the white Establishment. As black men, they must approve the new recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black...
MARK ROTHKO'S paintings lead you into calm thought, into an atmosphere of color, that dissolves any word attempting to describe it. From surrcalistic forms his images evolved into monumental rectangles that hover on the canvas. His color is subtle and strange. Part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, his work differed radically in tone and form from the others, like Jackson Pollock and William de Kooning. The simplicity of his rectangles foresaw the purity but not the hardness of the images of minimal...
THIS FORMAL analysis implies essential truths about the evolving situation of the protagonists. Lang is commonly called an Expressionist director who loves to trap characters in fate-filled plots. This view ignores Lang's persistent them of evidence of perception of the man who learns about the situation in which he is caught...