Word: neoclassicist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dark Imaginations. As the century began, the settled rules of neoclassicist art could no longer contain the experience of a generation of Germans who had grown up with war, conquest and instability. The dark woods and branching Gothic vegetation that Dürer and SchÖngauer had engraved came back to haunt living artists; the full force of literary romanticism, with its themes of love, death, exile and transcendence, played over them. The caped solitary figures in Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, staring mutely at the horizon with backs turned, are like footnotes to Goethe's Sorrows...