Word: humanisme
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The man who produced the greatest work among the Bridge group was one of them for only a year and a half: Emil Nolde, a grim north German, who came equipped with "tempests of color.'' Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the...
The major new figure to arise between the two wars was Max Beckmann, who by endlessly propounding the question "Who am I?" arrived at emblematic pictorial symbols that crowded his canvases to the bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists...
Germany's present intellectual climate is compounded of three elements, Hollerer continued? "an optimistic realism" which seeks the rapid achievement of practical goals, 'the old German humanism" founded on classical traditions, and a "scepticism of doctrine and dogma" created by recent events of German history.
Williams further brought out the realistic side of Perry's philosophy, showing how his battle with idealism characterized him as a "New Realist." Perry, asserted Williams, "transcended the new enlightenment philosophy" with his "modern realistic humanism."
XIII. What cast his work into the shadow was the rule of King Louis XIV, who favored the glorifying allegories and myths of the classic style, abhorred naturalism and humanism. Shown a work by one of La Tour's fellow realists, Louis le Nain, the Sun King snorted: "Take...