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NNadir's JournalThe Menaced Assassin.
1928, René Magritte (1898-1967) Belgian.
At the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pechstein was a member of the German "Brücke" movement which laid...
foundation to German expressionism, to which, for reasons I can't explain, I find myself drawn. (For about a year now, I've been entranced with the work of Max Beckmann, who was not a member of Brücke school, but was generally, albeit slightly later, a contemporary of Die Brückes.)
This group was drawn to the idea of introducing new approaches to color and to naturalism that was to help art transition from 19th century classicism.
Die Brücke artists were mostly self-trained, although some had training in architecture. Pechstein was the only member of the group to have had formal art training.
In 1914, the year the tragedy of the First World War began, Pechstein traveled to the South Pacific, spending a significant amount of time in Palau. He seems to have painted a number of paintings of Indians before that time, including the work with which this thread began. I don't know why or how he chose this subject matter.
Like many of the great artists of the Pre-war (World War I) and Weimar German art, Pechstein's work was surpressed by the Nazis, removed from German museums, and displayed at the famous "Degenerate Art" show put on by the Nazis in 1937.
Pechstein withdrew to the German countryside during World War II, and returned to West Berlin in 1945, where he was honored and subject to acclaim. He was a Professor of Art at the Berlin Institute until his death in 1955.
The Brücke group now has a museum dedicated to their work in Berlin. Should I ever get back to Germany, and go to Berlin for the first time, it would definitely be a museum worth visiting.
Untitled 1, Rustam Series
2011-2012, Khadim Ali, b. 1978, Pakistan, to Afghan Refugees.
At the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The Empty Cup.
Contemporary
Sharon Sprung (1953-present), American
At the Gallery Hennoch, New York
The Burning of the Center Bridge.
Edward Redfield, (1923) American, 1869-1965.
At the Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA.
Cassandra Imploring Athena for Revenge Against Ajax
Jérôme-Martin Langlois, French, early 19th century.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
You sound almost giddy with anticipation. It's a real shame that in New Jersey, we didn't...
...get a radiation leak that could inspire oodles of insipid cheering from scientifically illiterate anti-nukes who could feel justified to ignore the death and destruction in our state - it's frankly unimaginable - so they could all burn coal and gas to express their dire hope that someone, anyone, could die from said radiation leak, so as to justify their insipid paranoia.
This is, of course, what happened at Fukushima. The morally and intellectually vapid anti-nuke community ignored the twenty thousand people who died from things having nothing to do with nuclear energy, to hope and pray that someone, anyone would die from radiation.
Again, it's too bad that we couldn't help you in New Jersey.
I've just been reconnected to our nuclear power plants output. For five days, I lived in pretty primitive conditions, no lights, no heat, all my refrigerated food spoiled, supermarkets closed, out of all supplies, but please be assured, I feel for your need to have a nuclear disaster.
Now.
As far as I'm concerned, what happened to my home state is a function of climate change, which itself is a function of the fear, ignorance, moral and intellectual vacuity, and rote dogma of the anti-nuke cults, in their tireless efforts to destroy the infrastructure of the world's largest, by far, source of climate change.
Climate change is now a done deal. It will roast, smash, and destroy nearly everyone in the future.
What will come in the future is more of what's outside my door right now, the destroyed trees that will now dump their carbon into the atmosphere; more crop failures like those that have been seen on every continent in the last decade, more Katrinas, so on and so on.
It will make the deaths caused by air pollution - 3.3 million of them - half in children under the age of five seem like a walk in the park.
From where I sit, the anti-nuke cults, with their fear, ignorance, scientific illiteracy, and their selective attention can go fuck themselves. In my mind, they're simply murderers.
But that's just my opinion, and in truth, maybe I'm a little testy because of the destruction around here.
Again, I apologize for our highly educated and highly trained nuclear professionals in this state for not giving you something to crow about.
Congratulations though on your efforts to destroy nuclear infrastructure around the world and replace it with fracked gas, coal and similar stuff.
Heckuva job.
You must be very, very, very, very, very, very proud.
Arbre Deracine (Uprooted Tree)
1922, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (b. 1880, d. (suicide) 1938)
At the Landesmuseum, Hannover.
Liberation of the Peon
1931
Diego Rivera, Mexican (1886-1957)
At the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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