Francesco Clemente.SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: see Guggenheim Museum. The problem with expressionism expressionism, term used to describe works of art and literature in which the representation of reality is distorted to communicate an inner vision. The expressionist transforms nature rather than imitates it. '80s-style - German, New York German is a town in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 378 at the 2000 census. The town is named after General Obediah German, the original land owner. The Town of German is at the western border of the county and is west of Norwich. Neo, or Transavantgarde - is that the all-or-nothing bravado that it hinged on progressively looks like . . . well, kindness dictates we cut these macho dudes some slack. Of course Francesco Clemente was never mas macho, and with the epoch-claiming clamor all but a bad memory, chief curator Lisa Dennison's 200-work retrospective should afford pleasure enough to forgive the orientalism and the angst. Clemente is one of those "natural" talents (which I guess by now means simply that his pictorial inventiveness can be acknowledged pre any "judgments re: ends"). As for judgments re: ends? Decide yourself, when the artist's luxuriant luxuriant /lux·u·ri·ant/ (lug-zhoor´e-ant) growing freely or excessively. , surreal inventions metamorphose their way up the Guggenheim spiral this fall. Oct. 8, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion