Word: expressionistic
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...took 40 years' work in comparative obscurity before Alice Neel-now 64-won some recent recognition as one of the few artists capable of preserving the expressionist portrait as a live form (as in The Family, 1971). If an artist like Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler or Louise Nevelson manages, by prolonged and single-minded concentration on work, to annul the prejudice against women, it is assumed that she has "transcended the limits" of her sexual class. Thus Nevelson's austere and formidable constructions like Black Crescent, in the very act of "escaping" the stereotype, may confirm...
...second-generation Abstract Expressionist like Pearlstein, Leslie turned to figure painting in the early '60s. His technique as a draftsman is formidable, sharing Pearlstein's plain speech and relentless grip. Your Kindness is an idiosyncratic companion piece to David's famous Death of Marat, with Leslie's wife Constance West dressed as Charlotte Corday and holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac...
...York Times-"an exhibition so meretricious that within a few days of its opening it had become the subject of appalled snickers along the art circuit." And in the 1950s, not even Newman's fellow artists liked his work much. His painting threatened them by contradicting the Abstract Expressionist orthodoxy of gesture, drip and "action...
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...