PAINTERS OF RAGE & STORM
EXPRESSIONISM, the theory which holds that nature must be remodeled to reflect the artist's own inner vision, has often proved more trap than triumph. But for a favored few it has provided the channel to a new freedom in 20th century art, a fact strikingly demonstrated by the two hit shows of the current Paris season: a two-month-long retrospective of the late Russian-born Chaim Soutine, and the current full-scale retrospective for doughty, 80-year-old Maurice de Vlaminck.
Carcass of an Ox. Like Van Gogh, Soutine attacked painting in a frenzy...
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