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Is Max Beckmann likeable?
Fresh from a press preview of the Max Beckmann retrospective at MOMA, Queens, (1) I was extolling the virtues of the show to a friend I am very fond of, someone whose fierce intelligence and astonishingly well-furnished mind always delight me. Our tastes often overlap, so I was startled when my enthusiasm was met by a laconic "I don't like Beckmann." (We quickly began talking about something else.) Earlier that day, a colleague at the preview had announced his indifference to the painter, but I'd dismissed it, since I've never been impressed by this critic's eye. Yet at the same event, the show's curator, Robert Storr--an ardent admirer of Beckmann and, to judge by the ...
- Arte: Max Beckmann y su obra gráfica.(TT: Art: Max Beckmann and his graph work.)
- Magazine article from: Proceso González Rosas, Blanca July 9, 2000 700+ words
...mayo de este ao, con la muestra Max Beckmann, obra grfica en el Instituto de...grandes artistas del siglo XX, Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884-Nueva York 1950...tuvieron los lenguajes plsticos de Max Beckmann hasta llegar a sus formas ms caractersticas...
- 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
...how to come to terms with the German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950), whose work is the subject of...Men by the Sea (1905), the Double Portrait of Max Beckmann and Minna Beckmann-Tube (1909) and The Sinking of the Titanic...
- The Art Of Exile: In the first N.Y. museum show of Max Beckmann's
- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week John Mendelsohn November 15, 1996 700+ words
...the first N.Y. museum show of Max Beckmann's work in. 30 years, the...his native Germany, the painter Max Beckmann went from celebrated artist to...Museum Soho's exhibition, "Max BEckmann in Exile," is devoted to the...
- 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...remark means, it reminds us that Beckmann loved the circus and identified...tigers cower in a cage while a stern Beckmann, centered in the blaze of a lamp...
- 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...Iowa, the school bought a large Beckmann triptych, Carnival (1942/43...heavy dose of art history. In Beckmann we found a model of resolution...
- Identity: emotion.(Max Beckmann potrait painting)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: School Arts Kindseth, Anne September 1, 2005 700+ words
Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950) Self-Portrait...portrait is probably the last work that Max Beckmann painted before he left Berlin in July 1937 for the Netherlands. Beckmann's experiences during this unstable...
- For him, life was a circus, and vice versa; 20th-century German modern artist...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 20, 2003 700+ words
...for 20th-century German artist Max Beckmann. With him, revisiting his tumultuous...is an essential prerequisite. Beckmann lived through two world wars...the Expressionist tradition. * Max Beckmann is on view at Tate Modern, London...
- Beckmann's theater of exile. (painting, Max Beckmann, Guggenheim Museum SoHo,...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Ratcliff, Carter January 1, 1997 700+ words
Toward the end of "Max Beckmann in Exile," an exhibition of 21 paintings...d call furtive if everything in Beckmann's art, from physiques to details...more heat than light. I doubt that Beckmann thought his audiences needed to be...