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Gallery chronicle.(Art)
Several years ago, at a panel of art academics, I witnessed an eye-opening event. Behind an array of dons were projected the images of taro Picasso paintings--one, an abstract arrangement of colored shapes, the other, a figure. After a surfeit of deliberations on the circumstances of production, theories of sexuality, and the artist's "gaze," a student from the audience stood to make an observation. This abstract image, he suggested, mirrored key shapes in the figural work; namely, one could see a resemblance between the purple void carved out by the legs of the figure on the one side, and the dominant, diamond-shape field in the abstraction on the other. He was right. An ...
- Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) December 13, 2004 700+ words
...result, on view at the Feigen gallery, is Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann, a show that is not to be missed. It's...said that it's one of the downsides of this Picasso-Beckmann standoff that it's mostly limited to smallish...
- Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) July 28, 2003 700+ words
...the pictorial oeuvre that Beckmann created in the last three...experiment and innovation in Picasso. But in no other painter...represent the summit of Beckmann's achievement, even a modern classic like Picasso's Guernica has, for this...
- Beckmann on Beckmann. (Max Beckmann's self-portrait series, Gagosian Gallery,...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Brach, Paul March 1, 1993 700+ words
...the coffector Uhde. In the Picasso, the features of the sitter...fracture the image. In the Beckmann, the Cubist faceting is...the image of the artist. Picasso the painter wins over Uhde the sitter. Beckmann the sitter devours Beckmann...
- Max Beckmann & the School of Paris.(Max Beckmann, Saint Louis Art Museum)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Wilkin, Karen April 1, 1999 700+ words
...refinement that characterizes Beckmann's art is not uniquely his...it is impossible to look at Beckmann's sturdy-limbed figures...or 1930s without thinking of Picasso's neoclassical goddesses...it is impossible to look at Beckmann's brooding still lifes of...
- Prescient Paintings.(Max Beckmann)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Pepper, Tara March 3, 2003 700+ words
...in 1950, German artist Max Beckmann was overshadowed by showier Parisian peers like Matisse and Picasso. But he's finally getting...fought in World War I, what Beckmann saw haunted his canvases...degenerate art" in 1937, Beckmann's colors gradually became...
- Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War.(Page One)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) August 29, 2005 700+ words
...print portfolios that Dix and Beckmann can be thought to occupy common...unequal. As a painter, Max Beckmann occupies a place among the...judgment, rivals even that of Picasso's Guernica for first place...a few paintings by Dix and Beckmann are installed. Among them...
- Beyond degeneracy. (Frontline).(painter Max Beckmann exhibition at Tate Gallery)
- Magazine article from: History Today Furtado, Peter February 1, 2003 700+ words
...intellectuals of interwar Germany. Beckmann's art displays a complex...Rainbird puts it. Thereafter, Beckmann's subject matter became more...he held an ambition to rival Picasso as the great artist of his...European cultural renewal. Beckmann himself moved from Frankfurt...
- Max Beckmann at Tate Modern.(Notes & Comments)
- Magazine article from: Chicago Review Heller, Michael June 22, 2003 700+ words
...Pauls and the twenty-first century Beckmann exhibit both contain paintings of "spiritual...journey seems entirely one way, towards Beckmann. A further irony might be induced from the fact that the Beckmann exhibition was running concurrently with...
