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...Marsden Hartley's Portrait of a German Officer...
...world." Some of his work, particularly the figure paintings, verged on kitsch, but that only made him seem more like another American visionary, Edgar Allan Poe--so overwrought, yet so influential. Though Ryder was never (in his own view) a Modernist, a succession of American artists from Marsden Hartley to Jackson Pollock and beyond would look up to him as an emblem of aesthetic purity, a holy sage...
Other early American Modernists, like Arthur Dove, explored this landscape mysticism too. This is not surprising, since one of the great influences on Dove, Hartley and others was the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, whose tract Concerning the Spiritual in Art was published...
Later American art contains elegies of a more personal kind, right down to the various works of art that reflect the grief of the AIDS epidemic. Among the most moving utterances of personal loss, though the most heavily coded, is Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), evoking his homosexual lover, who was killed at the start of World War I. By contrast, Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, illustrates America's yearning for the sainthood of remote, unknowable celebrity...
...plot or the special effects. I do what I do because I love it." Off-Hollywood auteurs certainly love her. If the independent-film movement had an illustrated wall calendar, Posey would be on at least six of the months. She has become an imprimatur for veterans like Hal Hartley and Richard Linklater. Last month she won a special jury prize at Sundance for her role as a disturbed woman obsessed with Jackie Onassis in The House...