Expressionism
Chaim Soutine Was Obsessed With Dead Animals. In Painting Them, He Acutely Captured Life.
Soutine was illustrating the way in which death could reach for and resemble the guise of life.
How a Schlumpy Kid Named Art Spiegelman Changed Pop Culture
Not too long ago, comics were a disreputable art form. With the arrival of Art Spiegelman, they became the stuff of serious literature and high art.
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Friday Film: Weimar Cinema Beyond Caligari
“Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares,” running at MoMA until March 7, 2011, is billed as the largest-ever retrospective of German cinema from between the Wars to be shown in the United States. The era’s defining cinematic style, expressionism, is well-represented in dozens of offerings, giving a healthy dose of the atmospheric, disturbing and downright spooky in classics like “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” “M,” “Nosferatu,” “Vampyr” and “Waxworks.”
