"I'm still a reasonably lively artist, I think".
They also gravitate toward Mr. Dao's studio, across the Red River in Gia Lam, where a lively artist community is taking root.
(The lively artist, unfamiliar to me, is Bernarda Bryson Shahn, the companion and, later, the wife of the most popularly successful of the American leftist artists, Ben Shahn, with whom she collaborated on New Deal projects).
And Brockstedt, also of Berlin, brought the work of a lively artist of the cynical Neue Sachlichkeit movement, Jeanne Mammen, whose scathing drawings of Berlin cafe culture in the 1930's share the ironies of Grosz and Dix.
Then you notice the Land Rovers and Mercedes sedans, the art galleries and exhibition halls, and you've arrived in what has become over the past decade one of the biggest and liveliest artists' colonies in the world.
The liveliest artists in the show, and the ones best known to Americans, are the activists who first gained recognition in what is known as the Sots Art and post-Sots Art movements of the 1970's and 80's.
But at the Met Breuer she emerges as the liveliest artist in a movement that was often marred by intellectual and poetic pretensions, and whose abstracted themes of nature and metaphysics rarely appealed to American sensibilities, and still don't very much.
The grid as form and metaphor connects the diverse parts of this lively 10-artist show.
At Friday's performance some of the foppish glee Robert La Fosse displayed as Drosselmeier at the party could be questioned, but this is the interpretative choice of an enjoyably lively stage artist.
Highlights of this lively eight-artist show include Carl D'Alvia's bionic monkey and child; Jeff Sonhouses' masklike face finely painted in watercolor with an Afro of real burned matches; Tricia Keightly's neo-Art Nouveau abstract painting; a comical, quirkily detailed landscape painted by Johan Nobell; and, by Jennifer Sirey, a wobbly, pyramidal tower of glass boxes with moldy interiors (Johnson).
