Word: stagelight
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Lindner's paintings are violently theatrical; bathed in stagelight, they proffer biting vignettes of the modern world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
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