degenerate
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Some of his paintings, in fact, wound up in the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition, alongside Dix’s antiwar compositions and Chagall’s rabbi.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025
That’s the whole exhibition, and anyone who was expecting this to be a Netflix declension of the Degenerate Art Show, with poor patriarchal Picasso as ritualized scapegoat, can rest easy.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Evilthorpe the Degenerate: I am quoting now from a speech of his from late January 2016: “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
Oskar Kokoschka’s towering oil on canvas, Self-portrait of a Degenerate Artist, captures his defiant mood.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2018
Few sons their fathers equal; most appear Degenerate; but we find, though rare, sometimes A son superior even to his Sire.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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