Word: expressionistic
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...historic figure in modern art, little known in the U.S., died last week in Oslo, in his native Norway. Eighty-one-year-old Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk) was the founder of the Expressionist school of painting. He was also a legendary eccentric...
Morris Graves's queer-looking gouaches, disembodied pictures of weird, woebegone snakes and spindle-legged birds, were the show's No. 1 hit. Totally unlike anything hitherto dreamed of in U.S. art, they somewhat resembled the wiry expressionist fantasies of famed Swiss Painter Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21,1940). Hopping about an ornithological fairyland, or standing gravely among heaps of what looked like luminous spaghetti, Painter Graves's fossil-like birds were painted with the delicacy of Chinese landscapes...
...first important art training as an architectural designer in Vienna working under famed modern Architect Adolf Loos. In his spare time he painted tortured portraits of his Viennese friends. For his grim portraits and angrily smudged landscapes, collectors paid as high as $8,000. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Expressionist Kokoschka, caught in Prague, flew to England...
...Today Expressionist Kokoschka lives near London where he paints, writes and thrashes out world problems with a group of refugee intellectuals. From his English patrons, he still gets ?300 a canvas...
...models who have souls. Once in the early '20s, Painter Kokcschka was so discouraged trying to find a woman he liked that he commissioned a manufacturer to make him a life-size doll, giving exact specifications as to form, color of hair, eyes, etc. When the doll arrived, Expressionist Kokoschka was so disappointed he took it out into the back yard and burned it, meanwhile fending off a squad of policemen who were convinced he was removing traces of a murder...