Word: grosz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous artists and the hot issues that caused them to turn their hands to political cartoon, savage caricature and posterish polemic. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations do justice to the likes of Jacques Callot, Lucas Cranach, George Cruikshank, Daumier, Courbet, Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz and George Grosz. Fascinating, especially for an age of rage, despair and pungent partisanship...
World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...
Cabaret--This musical about the degeneration of German society just before Hitler came to power is a heady production emblazoned in the tones of Kurt Weill and George Grosz. Most of the original cast is gone, but the Kander-Ebb score, the Boris Aaronson sets, and Harold Prince's direction--all miraculous--are still there. So is Lotte Lenya, who is as beautiful and gravel-voiced as ever. At the BROADWAY, Broadway at 53rd...
Conspicuous in the show are 13 examples of his Women of 1950-55. These "bitch goddesses" outraged yet captivated the public taste at the time, perhaps because they were essentially familiar, looking nostalgically backward to Picasso's baleful demoiselles and George Grosz's Weimar whores. But looking backward in turn, most critics now find far more significant the abstract compositions that De Kooning executed between 1945 and 1950, before he immortalized his Women...
Buildings, police, slum kids, street crowds and the mayor-Bearden worked them all into the jigsaw combination of photomontage and pasteup collage that has become his personal style. It is a style he developed after years of study under such teachers as Satirist George Grosz and at Manhattan's Art Students League, and he uses it with remarkable versatility (TIME, Oct. 27, 1967). With it, he has portrayed the varied aspects of the world he has known-from Deep South sharecropper farms to the Harlem neighborhoods, where he spent his youth and later tried his hand at professional songwriting...