Word: expressionistic
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...have encouraged the production of icons, holy images, and other good luck charms that have no artistic value outside the church." The church also has its missionaries-the dealers. Among the leading ones right now is Manhattan's Leo Castelli. A few years ago, the story goes, Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning remarked, "That son of a bitch Castelli, he has the nerve to sell anything. He could even sell beer cans." Whereupon Jasper Johns proceeded to create his famous pop-art beer cans. Since the emergence of pop, with its move back to representation, abstraction has ceased...
...effort to define their paintings within a limited pictorial space, many of the abstract-expressionist painters, in the fifties, dispensed with frames altogether. Without frames, their pictures lose the illusionistic window effect and, rather than continuing off into an imaginary pictorial space behind a frame, they stop at the edges of the canvas and are entirely contained within it. In effect, these paintings become objects contained within the room in which the viewer is standing. Though his motives are different, Warhol uses the same technique to form a continuum between the space and environment of his pictures and the proximate...
...Beethoven since Artur Schnabel. "The remarkable quality about Lateiner's playing," says Composer Elliott Carter, "is his depth of understanding." It is an understanding that Lateiner has distilled from scholarly scrutiny of the original manuscripts of the music he plays. A collector by inclination (rare books, German expressionist drawings), he has amassed an impressive number of sketches and first-edition scores by Beethoven, Mozart and other composers, is often asked by other musicians to decipher the Sanskrit-like scratchings of Beethoven's notes and handwriting...
Will Eisner, The Spirit's creator, was one of the best of the comic book artists of the '30's and '40's. He wrote his own strips, and drew them in a violent graphic style related to the German expressionist approach to moviemaking practiced by Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, and F. W. Murnau. Eisner's strip was filled with horrifying close-ups, weird shadows, and strange angles. Jules Feiffer claims that The Spirit's world looked "more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie...
...Rock Hudson and Doris Day are pinned on the walls of Philippine homes right beside the family crucifix, and a Budapest newspaper recently exhorted its readers to imitate the manners in My Fair Lady. Bestselling books in the U.S. frequently become bestsellers in West Germany. The whole abstract-expressionist movement that originated in the U.S. with Jackson Pollock has spread to almost every continent...