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Mondrian Before Abstraction
Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Painter of Modern Anxiety
Kirchner was the anti-Matisse.
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Jessica Dismorr Is Getting Her Due, 80 Years Too Late
There is much to praise about Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries, and there is not a little to regret.
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The Endlessly Inventive Jörg Immendorff
Imagine Gustave Courbet’s materialism joined to Max Beckmann’s aggressive color, with a dash of Caspar David Friedrich’s visionary panoramas thrown in.
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The Unsparing Pages of Francis Bacon
Almost 30 years after his death, the unabated edginess of Bacon’s paintings, and the dark literary sources informing them, put the lie to our self-mythologizing.
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The Story of Charles Ethan Porter, an African American Still-Life Painter
Porter’s struggle, and the ensuing invisibility of his work, are as much a part of his story as his masterful paintings that dignify humble everyday objects.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Richard Hull
“My lifelong project in my painting has been to locate myself.”
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Kiefer Overbrims His World
Anselm Kiefer draws down the world upon his shoulders in a mood of what can only be described as apocalyptic excess.
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The Somber Symbolism of Jill Mulleady
The Swiss-Uruguayan artist here challenges viewers with a single, colossal painting and a group of provocative conceptual pieces.
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Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us
From limbless bodies to gorging, ravenous figures to gouged surfaces, there has always been something broken and deeply damaged about Goodman’s art.
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Lucian Freud’s Shadow Self
As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself?
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Painting on a Knife’s Edge
With ATOMIC, her new body of work, Patricia Satterlee pitches us into abstract apparitions of heaven and hell before pulling us back to earth.