The Roman Catholic Church Records from the Archdiocese of Detroit are on. microfilm and represent 78 different parishes. Geographically, the parishes are. located in Detroit and throughout southeast Michigan. The records cover the. years 1704-1930. The types of records include: baptisms, first communions,
Abstract expressionism is a postâ World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.ne of the most vocal critics of abstract expressionism at the time was New York Times art critic John Canaday. Meyer Schapiro and Leo Steinberg along with Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg were important art historians of the post-war era who voiced support for abstract expressionism.
Emil Nolde was one of the early expressionist painters, though his fame has been eclipsed recently by other painters of expressionism such as Munch. Expressionism seeks to distort reality to reveal a subjective viewpoint. This painting was made as a study of masks in the Berlin museum, as well as a shrunken head.