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Europe's top summer show at Paris' Pompidou Center
By far the most important art show in Europe this summer is "Paris-Berlin, 1900-1933" at the Pompidou Center in Paris. It is the second of three exhibitions designed to describe the links between Paris and three other capitals of modernist culture: New York, Berlin and Moscow. The project...
The quality of German visual art has traditionally been downplayed by a Francocentric version of art history, so that-especially for those born between 1930 and 1945- there were relatively few vivid images of a civilized "modernist" Germany to set against the overwhelming iconography of Nazi terror. Now this is...
It is, of course, a spectacle very different from French art. Instead of the relatively ordered conversations of the masters of the School of Paris, we see a kind of telephone exchange buzzing with impacted messages and manned, much of the time, by desperate operators; among the shouts and static...
We have to finish once and for all with the current of French tradition, which almost totally dominates German painting," Grosz wrote to a friend as the first World War was ending. "We have to finish with these weary painters of sentiment and vagueness, Cezanne, Picasso and the rest." Certainly...