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The modernism of El Greco.(Art)
"The most modern of Old Masters" declares a text panel at the beginning of this fall's stunning El Greco retrospective at the Metropolitan. Hyperbole, maybe, but it's easy to agree when we become engaged by this enigmatic artist's moody, ecstatic devotional paintings, losing ourselves in eyepopping color and crackling tonal shifts, brittle planes and unstable spaces or savoring the expressive exaggerations of confrontational portraits, instead of deciphering iconography or wondering about the identity of the sitters. No matter how much we know about the historical context of these pictures, no matter how firm a grip we have on the permutations of painting in the late ...
- Beckmann on Beckmann. (Max Beckmann's self-portrait series, Gagosian Gallery,...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Brach, Paul March 1, 1993 700+ words
...portraits reminds the author of how Max Beckmann survived persecution and exile to produce...University of Iowa, the school bought a large Beckmann triptych, Carnival (1942/43). It...included a heavy dose of art history. In Beckmann we found a model of resolution between...
- 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
...artists--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Max Beckmann (1884-1950)--whose works, though they...The result, on view at the Feigen gallery, is Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann, a show that is not to be missed. It's not...
- Max Beckmann & the School of Paris.(Max Beckmann, Saint Louis Art Museum)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Wilkin, Karen April 1, 1999 700+ words
The immediate response to "Beckmann and Paris" is a classic, brow...is the obvious way to think about Beckmann. Still it is an imaginative, persuasive...anyone who has looked attentively at Beckmann's work is aware of how different...
- 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
...to terms with the German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950), whose work is the subject...Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Beckmann was too big a figure--too ambitious...following, parroting and simplifying many of Beckmann's own prejudices, and this, too...
- 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...
- Max Beckmann.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Cooper, Harry September 1, 2003 700+ words
...city I bear the lions roaring," Max Beckmann noted in his diary in 1947, a few days...the remark means, it reminds us that Beckmann loved the circus and identified with...tigers cower in a cage while a stern Beckmann, centered in the blaze of a lamp, reads...
- Max Beckmann: retrospective.
- Magazine article from: National Review Meyers, Jeffrey May 31, 1985 700+ words
...American authors, with a catalogue of Beckmann's 636 paintings, drawings, and prints...Amsterdam, and America are illuminating. Beckmann was born in Leipzig in 1884, studied...the morbid poems of Gottfried Benn, Beckmann's vision was nourished by the brutality...
- Is Max Beckmann likeable?
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Wilkin, Karen September 1, 2003 700+ words
...Fresh from a press preview of the Max Beckmann retrospective at MOMA, Queens, (1...was met by a laconic "I don't like Beckmann." (We quickly began talking about...Robert Storr--an ardent admirer of Beckmann and, to judge by the exhibition's...