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...Deco, the popular style of the '30s. Using Deco idioms was as far as Disney ever went in the direction of classicism, but it would be shaky to suppose he picked up the habit in a museum. By the same token, he may never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms and bubbles of a pond in Arcadia...
...dying of a mosquito bite en route to the Dardanelles, a dozen real poets like Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen were cut down. Georges Braque was shot and lived, but the war deprived the 20th century of the mature work of Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named Gaudier-Brzeska who might well have rivaled Brancusi in his contribution to modernism. One of the saddest casualties was a German who never fought, the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. "Who stayed behind after these murders?" he wrote...
Wilson admits that he has been influenced by Mucha, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and "the expressionist idea of really putting it out there...
...Hundertwasser means that he embodies in his work all the blend of crumbling worldliness and gooey sensuality of a Linzertorte. Like his native city, which lies on the fringes of the Western world, his work flirts with the Far East, draws from such predecessors as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt as well as the tendrilous enticements of Jugendstil or art nouveau. He mingles oils and tempera with gold and silver foil, beeswax, and bits of peat moss and sand to make his almost bitter, labyrinthine pastries...
AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISTS-St.Etienne,24 West 57th. A good peek at the southerly, softer version of Teutonic expressionism: 67 watercolors, drawings and prints by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Laske, L. H. Jungenickel, Anton Faistauer, and Herbert Boeckl. along with a rare Self-Portrait by the late gifted Richard Gerstl, the second work of the posthumously discovered artist ever to be on view in the U.S. Through...