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...much depicted as reconstituted in the fatty whorls and runs of paint, take on a tragic density closer to Michelangelo than to modernism. Among those artists who, in the past century, have tried to represent the inwardness of the body, Bacon holds a high place, along with Schiele, Kokoschka and Giacometti. He breaks the chain of pessimistic expectation by taking his prototypes beyond themselves into grandeur. In earlier art there was a repertoire of classical emblems of energy and pathos, starting with the Laocoon, that painters could draw on for this operation. Bacon's starting point is less authoritative: photographs...
...sense of drawing was so ingrained that she could cover a huge surface with notations that never palled: shifting tempo, direction, fatness of marks; she could (literally) paint up a storm. Works like Cobalt Night, 1962, or Charred Landscape, 1960, raise echoes of romantic "spectaculars," from Tintoretto to Oskar Kokoschka. They take a field of subject matter that Pollock was generally thought to have sealed off as his own-atmospheric space, roiled with stress and strain-and return it from the impromptu drip (which no one after Pollock could manage anyway) to the more deliberate action of the brush. When...
...With your permission, I'd like to give my opinion of the Kokoschka picture of my sister. I think it's a hideous mess. As great an artist as this man may be today, he certainly goofed in 1926. My sister is a very pretty girl...
...exhibitions of its New York parent, and at the instruction of MOMA, it concentrated on the Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists. For some years this was a most fruitful setup for the tiny Boston MOMA. Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, and Georges Rouault were virtually unknown in this country when the ICA first exhibited their work...
DIED. Oskar Kokoschka, 93, Austrian-born expressionist; in Villeneuve, Switzerland. In his 20s the fiery, eccentric Kokoschka painted some of the great portraits of the century, which explored the recesses of the psyche, even as his compatriot Freud was probing it. With Kirchner, Nolde and Max Beckmann, among others, he was a founder of the style of radical figurative art known as German expressionism. After World War I he turned to bright cityscapes, and during his last years in Switzerland, to Alpine landscapes...