Word: expressionistic
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Johns's choice of Ballantine ale cans came from an offhand remark by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning to Johns's dealer, Leo Castelli: "Give that s.o.b. two beer cans and he could sell them." Johns proved he could (price: $1,000). Johns has also made art out of neon lettering, chairs, paint brushes and cast light bulbs in bronze...
JAMES HARVEY-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. Harvey, an abstract expressionist, is also a commercial artist, and he took a dim view of Pop Painter Andy Warhol's Brillo-box copies. Harvey, after all, had designed the original. Harvey's new paintings consist of whirling wheels of color that hang dizzily even from the ceiling. They look as though they would be hard to copy. Through...
EMILE NOLDE and ERNST KIRCHNER-Auslander, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. For anyone who missed the Museum of Modern Art's Nolde retrospective last year, this small sampling (some 20 works) offers another look at his brooding landscapes and blazing watercolors. A fellow German expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, is seen in six works. Through...
...perishable. Oil paintings in particular suffer from uneven temperatures, direct sunlight, or smog. Some of the finest works of Rembrandt, a meticulous craftsman, have darkened and yellowed after three centuries; several Van Gogh canvases are in danger of disintegration after only 75 or 80 years. As for abstract expressionist paintings, which are characteristically encrusted with heavy, hastily applied impastos-often by artists who are relatively untutored in the complexities of oil technique-museums find that they should be periodically turned upside down so that errant paint will ooze back into place...
...Russian film and naturally there's plenty of pseudo-classic montage, dramatic sky and stark, navel-level camera work, but the really exciting footage owes something to the early German directors. Wasn't it Robert Weine who painted the foreboding expressionist shadows on the set of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? And Carl Mayer who strapped a camera on Carl Freund, the "drunk" camera man of The Last Laugh...