Word: expressionistic
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...Berkeley the show gained attention for Holder as a major new point of perspective in viewing early modernist art. The sketches are the most interesting thing in the show, and most of the larger works appear stiff and stilted by comparison. The landscapes are significant for prefiguring German Expressionist works...
...exhibit of Expressionist prints now at the Fogg is ample evidence that this broadly worded statement did not force die Brucke's members into a single style. Gauguin's influence is very strong in Erich Heckel's woodcuts. Ludwig Kirchner, the leader of the group, learned about composition from Matisse (as Dodo Reclining shows). And one of Kirchner's later woodcuts, Dr. Bauer, demonstrates his debt to Picasso...
...FOGG: Old Wedgewood and Harvard Wedgewood, through June 24; Illustrated Books From the Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs, through June 24; Turkish Art, through June 10; German Expressionist Prints through June 1; Jim Dine's Emma Bovary, through June...
...PAINT a picture like this required Olitski to paint his way through years of difficulty. The earliest paintings included in the show are a whole room full of small works which look like abstract expressionist paintings, but were executed by building up the surface as much as three inches with spackle. The effect is that of stale cake frosting, limited to three colors -- charcoal, sickly pink, and dirty white -- knifed or squeezed onto the canvas. The paintings suggest parody of the rough, sculptural brush work of De Kooning, at the same time evidencing an interest in the ease with which...
...Pollock's and the first to seize upon his innovations, has been subjecting his work to constant refinement in the years since his and Pollock's first drip-paintings in the late forties. His recent show earned him long-deserved critical acclaim for a style that continues the expressionist tradition at a high level of formal competence...