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Munch was a highly neurotic, misogynous, inward-turning artist who led the revolt of the '90s against the formal, detached, analytical approach of the French Impressionists. Munch and his followers, trying for the highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...
...most phenomenally gifted fiddlers who ever lived, he ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...
...grew, held regional meetings. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Watson's R.P.P.A. warned the G.O.P. that isolationism means defeat in 1944. Said Member Mayo A. Shattuck, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association: it would be a calamity if the election of a Republican ticket should mean "another gang of inward-turning, narrow-minded stuffed shirts...
...Eyes Inward? The Extraordinary Diet might have been called because of a sagging home front. Though the national mobilization law of 1938 seemed to grant the Government all necessary power over the domestic economy, a lot of water has since flowed past Nippon's shores...
...Clemente Orozco alone. There were also many small drawings and lithographs by younger, lesser known Mexicans who revealed at least as much imagination and power of draftsmanship as their elder, more celebrated countrymen. With their elders, they shared modern Mexican art's preoccupation with violence and deformity, both inward and outward...