Word: strindbergism
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...they have been around long enough for critics now to cast about for ancestors to confirm abstractionism in a tradition of its own. Last week an exhibition in West Germany revealed a new "father" of abstractionism; he turned out to be none other than the great Swedish playwright August Strindberg, who 70 years ago not only painted abstractly, but-being an articulate man-was able to say, in a surprisingly up-to-date way, why he was doing so. It was Strindberg's thesis that a painting took on life only when liberated from images. In the same week...
...tormented life of the playwright Johan August Strindberg, the darkest time fell between the years 1893 and 1895. The government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...
Westport, Conn., Westport Country Playhouse: a double bill-Viveca Lindfors, Betty Field and Rita Gam in Strindberg's Miss Julie, coupled with Edward Albee's off-Broadway hit, The Zoo Story...
...fallen off from its earlier, more sparkling days, but any shoddiness in its corps or weakness in the orchestra was forgotten on opening night in the performances of Erik Bruhn and Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with such a legendary dancing pair as Nijinsky...