Although Beckmann, whose work became increasingly epic and theatrical as the decades marched on, was in many ways a wonderful talent, Rosenberg's phrase about "potentialities for hysteria" is hard to escape when looking at his hectic, jagged, symbol-laden work.
"Everybody finds a time when they need to escape and look at the possibilities on the horizon". Like Roche and Birgisdottir, other "DREAM land)" artists turn heads into metaphors for escaping reality, whether the craniums are faceless or morphing into plants.
But here, whatever shit goes on, you can always escape and look at the sea".
My eyes are in love with it as they are in love with all dead things which cannot escape being looked at.
It is very common to escape eye contact by looking at your notes, the floor, or turning your back on your audience to face your slides.
For all their ballyhooed "emotional darkness" and "ambiguity," there is really no escaping that you are looking at a bunch of murky images of banal objects lying about the floor.
We had crawled out on the fire escape to look at the melons, and there was the dove, brooding on her eggs, keeping one eye on us.
"As they approached I realised we were not going to escape, so I looked at one of them and said 'Don't' in a pleading voice.
To escape the cops, look at the mini map on the lower left corner of the screen to check the range of the police, marked by a large flashing circle, that's chasing you.
I can't escape them; I can't stop looking at them.
