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Those whom the war did not kill, it maimed. Kirchner retired to a sanitarium in Switzerland, later committed suicide. George Grosz emerged from a military hospital for the insane with the horrors of trench warfare, which he painted with the richness of Rubens, burned into his memory. In the postwar years of angry anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics. (Today Grosz, an American citizen, lives on Long Island, N.Y., paints landscapes, nudes, and insect parables that "express the emptiness of man.") Oskar Kokoschka was shot and bayoneted through the chest...
...Seeker" and Adja Yunkers' "Composition II"--were unworthy choices. Jack Levine's "The Judge" (see cut at right) won the Grand Prize It is indeed a masterly work, executed in splotches of restrained browns and dull white that take shape only at a distance. Other exceptional works were George Grosz's "Night-mare," Mitchell Siporin's "The Gallery," and Max Weber's "Flute Player." William Kienbush received honorable mention for his competent "Coast of Baker Island." The sculpture choices, however, were poor on the whole; Isamu Noguchi's "The Ring" was by far the best item...
...title of the exhibit is "War and Aftermath: German Art in Relation to the First World War." Cooperating museums and individuals have contributed more than 50 items. Among the artists represented are Grosz, Dix, Beckmann, Rohlfs, and Klee...
...aesthetic criterion, however, is challenged most graphically by George Grosz. Sharp, biting, vitriolic, his satires often, as in "I Am The Boss," amount to a vulgar denial of aesthetics. Grosz succeeds in his attempt to revolt and disgust. His portrayals of lasciviousnes, corruption and wretchedness hit home with intended impact for they are executed in line and wash that are as sickly and depressing as their subjects...
...schism between poetry and Strum and Drang lies in intensity of emotion or dramatic nature of the subject. Actually Goya's "Disasters of War," certainly more graphic than anything here, or Picasso's "Guernica," more symbolic and abstract than anything here, answer an emphatic no. For if Barlach, Kollwitz, Grosz, et al, utter an emotional cry from the blackness of chaos and confusion, it is Picasso and Goya who offer, with emotion disciplined. "right" and "inevitable," an answer which cannot help being true...