Tag: Max Beckmann
Sydney Morning Herald Column
European Masters
Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald Column,It must be easier to promote an international blockbuster when magical words such as “Paris” or “New York” appear in the title. Matters become more complicated when the city of origin is Frankfurt, known as a centre of commerce rather than culture, even though it has at least three major art museums. One of the […]
Art Essays
Modern Painting in 15 Easy Pieces: The past 100 years
Friday, August 15th, 2003 General Art Essays, International Art,All definitions of modern art are bound to end in failure, but that has not prevented artists and writers from making the attempt. In fact, one might see the entire twentieth century as an unbroken sequence of definitions and re-definitions, with each movement taking its cue from an earlier one, but striving to surpass and […]