April 18, 2003

A Champion of Discarded Artists

By PETER MONAGHAN

Bram Dijkstra brings to light American Expressionism, 'great art with a social content'

For more than 60 years, influential art critics have been completely wrong about American Expressionism, Bram Dijkstra insists.

The movement was marked by narrative works of emotional immediacy, and characterized by intense colors and other distortions. American Expressionist painters depicted workers worn out by the dictates of industry, unemployed men eyed warily by the law, families torn

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