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looking horror in the face

Whilst working on my comments on Susan Sontag's Regarding The Pain of Others I recalled the work of the German expressionists, expecially Max Beckmann.

This is a self portrait:

An analysis of Beckmann's faces can be found here

I recalled Beckmann because I remembered the painting from studying art history at university called The Night:

It depicts urban horror.

Lo and behold there is a current exhibition of Beckmann's paintings at MOMA You can view more of Beckmann's paintings here

I will come back to Beckmann and the Australian expressionist Albert Tucker with future comments on Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others.

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at August 3, 2003 07:23 PM | TrackBack