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Wendy Kay Dawson
the current topics? What do you think about the 'Smithsonian Incident'?
Jaxas
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>Hey, everybody I'm new to this group. Are there any regulars? What are
>the current topics? What do you think about the 'Smithsonian Incident'?
What Smithsonian incident ? If you're referring to the Enola Gay exhibit,
that hardly qualifies as artistic, or proper for discussion in a newsgroup
devoted to art topix.
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carl stevenson
> Hey, everybody I'm new to this group. Are there any regulars? What are
> the current topics? What do you think about the 'Smithsonian Incident'?
whats the smithsonian incident?
carl
Steve Corning
<daw...@darkwing.uoregon.edu> writes:
I have been trying this group for about a month now and there doesn't
seem to be any pattern or clarity. The earlier post about don't expect
it to be here next time also seems to hold. It seems like postings are
purged within about 2 days.
So, let's take a chance and start some postings on some topics here.
If there are regulars (I could not find a FAQ), please let us know,
and educate versus flame please.
My topic is why is German Art generally poorly represented in this
the United States?
I am in Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago has enough
Impressionists to fill dozens of rooms. You could put the Modern German
paintings in a small room.
The Detroit Institute seems to have the best collection, St. Louis has
Beckman, and the Met has some just due to sheer size.
Even the Milwaukee Museum, (the German City of the U.S.) downplays the
German collection.
I do not think this is any kind of prejudice or anything. Much of the
Modern German art is very emotional and tied to German History. One
looks at a French Impressionist painting and it would look nice above
the sofa. A painting by Nolde or Kirchner takes some getting used to.
Also many of the works are prints and watercolors which most museums do
not like to keep on display.
My suggestions for some nice retrospectives would include some or all of
the following.
Emil Nolde - his watercolors are incredible and his religious works very
powerful.
E.L. Kirchner - his drawing skills are a hundred times those of Picasso,
His use of color and unusual composition are glaring and overpowering
but really make you pay attention to the work.
Karl Schmidt-Rotluff - His watercolors again are bold and colorful with
a real mastering of the technique.
More recently:
Anselm Kiefer had a great show at Chicago a few years back.
The recent Josef Beuys exhibit of drawings was interesting but a show of
his sculptures (or happenings) would be nice.
Gotthard Graubner - His huge works are like a single color variation of
a Rothko, but painted on a huge pillow.
Klaus Fussmann - Here is a real current Master who has great technique
in watercolor and oil, and pastel. He really deserves a major
retrospective in a museum.
I would also like to see A.R. Penck, Markus Lupertz, and Jorg Immendorf.
For Horst Jansens Birthday (65?), Hamburg had three museums showing his
work. Here in the U.S. nothing. London has done a pretty good job of
showing German retrospectives.
WYNNK
have a good representation of German work, is that these institutions
rely largely on donations to their collections and the German work has not
found collectors in large numbers here. Many of the musea are now trying
to fill the holes in their collections by purchases or by asking donors
for specific artworks. St. Louis has great Kiefers in addition to its
Beckmans, and the National Gallery has also acquired a major Kiefer in the
last few years.
The one contemporary German you did not mention is Franz Ehrhard Walther;
do you know his work?
wynn k
Soukup Katarina
yes, 'cause we *all* know that true art transcends politics and history,
don't we? ;-)
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