tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post299136435976583064..comments2023-10-31T12:17:42.008+00:00Comments on Adventures in the Print Trade: Port d'eaux-mortes - George Grosz in FranceNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-59333269454840182442010-11-29T16:00:00.561+00:002010-11-29T16:00:00.561+00:00I wouldn't worry about overstating a case. Ma...I wouldn't worry about overstating a case. Mae West once said "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." With the exception of Grosz, I don't have a strong sense of what was typical for these other artists - but that's what makes seeing something new fun.Jane Librizzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-9014937341819243182010-11-28T22:45:41.712+00:002010-11-28T22:45:41.712+00:00Jane - I may have overstated my case, but I do thi...Jane - I may have overstated my case, but I do think Grosz had a strong influence on these artists, if only for a couple of years. In the case of Dignimont, only really for the Amants et voleurs etchings which are so much more violent and expressionist than the rest of his work, and in the case of Vertès largely for his work published in 1926 (his most important work, in my view, though I do admire his later output). None of the French artists had quite such a savage sense of disgust as Grosz, but they appropriated his visual aesthetic into their own art.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340634554199883217.post-1367509312152100932010-11-28T19:47:39.529+00:002010-11-28T19:47:39.529+00:00I may have missed it, but I don't find Grosz&#...I may have missed it, but I don't find Grosz's jaundiced eye in Dignimont, et al. Their works seem designed to amuse, to skate over the surface of things by being more decorative. To see them together is jarring but makes one think.Jane Librizzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.com