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Article: German Expressionism, Never Cuddly Work, Is at Neue Galerie.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2004
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
German Expressionist painting, which is currently the subject of a thematic exhibition focused on Arcadia and Metropolis at the Neue Galerie in New York, has never been an art for the tender-hearted. It's an art conceived in a spirit of raucous rebellion, and its ethos remained confrontational and its aesthetic abrasive even after the movement itself came to be embraced by critical opinion. Compared to parallel developments in the School of Paris, especially in regard to the radicalizing influence of Gauguin and Van Gogh, the German avant-garde remained obstinately uncouth and even brutal in style and subjects.
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