Word: kokoschka
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...Kokoschka's many other portraits are nervous and feverish. They look hurried. Twenty sanguine drawings, six of which are shown, were actually done in one evening. Kokoschka, however, is not concerned with the external aspects of his subjects so much as with the strange lines of their inner personalities. The results are haunting...
...city of Salzburg was aglow last summer with a magnificent production of Mozart's Magic Flute. To help usher in the Mozart year with style, the Austrians commissioned Oskar Kokoschka to design sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more...
Particularly unusual for Kokoschka are the small naturalistic color lithographs designed as post cards for the Vienna Werkstatte in 1907 and typical of the art nouveau a decorative style popular in the late Victorian...
...Bach Cantata lithographs from these early years reveal the characteristic features of Kokoschka's style. They are animated and mysterious, expressing the artist's belief that "man is a magical thing, full of magical powers." Every line has meaning--the intersecting lines of force and the curling gestures create a mood of tension. A self-portrait in this series, similar to one owned by the Museum of Modern Art, shows Kokoschka pointing to his chest. He considers this portrait prophetic, since he was wounded in this spot a few years later during the first World...
...spite of what may be called a broad style, Kokoschka is aware of details, even of what appear to be insignificant things like the way the line of the eyelid moves into the angle of the nose. Kokoschka explains, "I will teach them to see again; this is the faculty lost to modern society...