Everybody scream: it's International Moment of Frustration Scream Day! At 12 noon, go outside and scream! You'll feel better for it.
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Everybody scream: it's International Moment of Frustration Scream Day! At 12 noon, go outside and scream! You'll feel better for it.
Artist Jim Nutt's colorful and disturbing lady looks poised to let out a good loud scream in this painting, It's a Long Way Down.
Nutt's unusual style developed from his association with a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. The Imagists' use of the vernacular is always filtered through a strongly personal response. Commercial and popular sources are never used "straight" but are catalysts for the artists' emotionally charged transformations.… Nutt's [figures evolve] through jagged and then more fluid distortions.… A catalogue of the Imagists' method of expressive transformation, then, would include the distortions of expressionism, the juxtapositions of Surrealism, and the stylization of primitive and folk art.
Source: National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and Boston, New York, Toronto, and London: National Museum of American Art with Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Company, 1995).
Pictured: Jim Nutt, born 1938, It's a Long Way Down, 1971, acrylic on wood, 33 7/8 x 24 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the S. W. and B. M. Koffler Foundation.