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However dated Dix's art may now seem - not only by its Weimar-era harshness but by its equally aggressive conjuration of northern Renaissance and Baroque predecessors - its power and facility lend it a tortured authority that grips you at the beginning of his retrospective and doesn't let go.
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Der Krieg, Dix's answer to (well, echo of) Goya, is the focus here, but drawings of everything from brains and intestines to camp-following prostitutes augment the grotesque immersion afforded by the cycle of fifty etchings.
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Several of these lustmord watercolors are on view at Neue Galerie: They are so misogynistic that Dix's depictions of prostitutes, with their painted faces, distended bodies and lurid smiles seem tame.
Sex, Blood and War Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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But the retrospective plays down this aspect of Dix's oeuvre, mostly omitting the paintings of crippled automatons and the snarky drawings and photomontages that connected him to the angry, politicized Berlin version of Dada.
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The exhibition presents Dix's many facets, but draws most of its hundred-plus works from the years between 1919 and 1939, which the museum's director, Renee Price, calls "the decisive two decades of Dix's career."
Sex, Blood and War Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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The exhibition presents Dix's many facets, but draws most of its hundred-plus works from the years between 1919 and 1939, which the museum's director, Renee Price, calls "the decisive two decades of Dix's career."
Sex, Blood and War Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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Several of these lustmord watercolors are on view at Neue Galerie: They are so misogynistic that Dix's depictions of prostitutes, with their painted faces, distended bodies and lurid smiles seem tame.
Sex, Blood and War Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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The exhibition presents Dix's many facets, but draws most of its hundred-plus works from the years between 1919 and 1939, which the museum's director, Renee Price, calls "the decisive two decades of Dix's career."
Sex, Blood and War Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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Several of these lustmord watercolors are on view at Neue Galerie: They are so misogynistic that Dix's depictions of prostitutes, with their painted faces, distended bodies and lurid smiles seem tame.
Sex, Blood and War Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010
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Nothing that follows is quite so ferocious, but there is an icy clinicality to Dix's purely visual regard even in Der Krieg that distances his work from the expressionism of the previous generation.
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