Tempe blogger Gary Santoro and I met up at Alice Cooper's for a beer, which I spilled as we discussed painter and cartoonist Lyonel Feininger, a representeur of the German Expressionism movement. It looks like cubism to me.
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| In the Channel | 1941 |
American artists, like Feininger, were tied to European ideals in art for the first half of the twentieth century. As Feininger matured, his work seems to come full circle, heading back to his days as cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune:
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| political cartoon, 1906 |
This marked the end of a long era of reliance on Europe for creative direction. Although fellow cubist, Picasso remained at the forefront of artistic expression, pure expressionism came about only when American artists gave up the notion of representational painting and learned to express without metaphor.
