Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN ANDERSON-Stone, 48 East 86th. Formerly a logger, this Pratt Institute instructor of sculpture now whittles on his own. Newel posts, finials and bobbins sprout all over his abstract trees or tumble from his table-top cornucopias. These carpenterlike sculptures have a deceptively utilitarian look, like tools and toys for Paul Bunyan, but they are exquisitely appealing. Through...
RAYMOND MINTZ-Rehn, 36 East 61st. Mintz's landscapes abound with bold, nearly abstract forms, symbols of perpetual life and decay, but two figure paintings of excruciating delineation prove he has a realist's eye. Through...
JACKSON POLLOCK-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The largest assembly-152 paintings and drawings-of the titanic American abstract expressionist ever shown under one roof (see ART). Through Feb. 15. At Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th: ten of Pollock's early, representational works, most of them painted in 1934. Through...
JEWISH MUSEUM-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Twenty U.S. artists show 39 astringent black-and-white paintings plucked from the usually warmer palettes of such painters as Albers, Hofmann, Pollock, Motherwell and De Kooning. Stripped of color, the ironwork of their composition shows off the tough structure of abstract expressionism. Through...
...Jump. Bucky's peculiar distinction is that, while many of his fellow intellectuals are depressed by the "materialistic" 20th century, he is exhilarated. He is excited by "humanity's epochal graduation from the inert, materialistic 19th century into the dynamic, abstract 20th century." He feels that there is an "important reorientation of mankind, from the role of an inherent failure, as erroneously reasoned by Malthus, and erroneously accepted by the bootstrap-anchored custodians of civilization's processes, to a new role for mankind, that of an inherent success." He is sure the whole world...