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| Max Beckmann, Departure |
New word: JOURNEY (Voyage, departure, maybe arrival and return...)
The painting is by Max Beckmann--one of those he made in a garret in Amsterdam during the Second world War--in hiding from the Nazi occupation, waiting to see if a crossing to the United States could be arranged... The painting is now in the MOMA in New York. Beckmann's career in total is quite interesting--his voyage, if you will--where he began (as a kind of tough-minded society painter), then his politically-pointed paintings in the 30s and during the war (as above)--and finally, the last works, made in the US after he was finally able to escape Europe...
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