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Tag Archives: Albrecht Altdorfer
dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.
The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Christian Schad, Christopher Hitchens, David Seidler, Donald Kuspit, Franz Radziwill, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Lucas Cranach, Mark Vallen, Neville Chamberlain, Otto Dix, Rob Candelino, Russell Smith, Seidler king's Speech, Stuart Elliott, Travis English
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abberations from the ideal form
The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Phillips, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Alessandro Botticelli, Beckmann, Donald Kuspit, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Intimate Strangers 2004, Jean Paul Sartre, Leo Bersani, Lucas Cranach, Matthias Grunewald, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Patrice Leconte, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sigmund Freud
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Just a little fix-me-upper
Conjuring up fantastic towers and non-existant cities, painters across the centuries have created a dream architecture of gaudy, improbable, and often psychologically revealing buildings. They are mansions of the imagination, as if the expansiveness of such imagination could be limited … Continue reading
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