Word: abstractionist
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...ridge overlooking Murnau, near Munich, speaks by its appearance of suffering and sorrow. The fence sags wearily, and the path leading to the front door last week lay buried under a foot-high pile of dead leaves. Yet the house is famous. It was purchased by the pioneer abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky and his onetime mistress, Gabriele Münter, in 1908. There, at the age of 84, Gabriele Münter still lives, an artist who is steadily gaining fame in her own right as one of the best of the German expressionists...
...York Dealer Martha Jackson pays Sculptress Louise Nevelson and Spanish Painter Antonio Tapies $20,000 a year in return for U.S. representation of their work. She also has an arrangement with three other galleries in Europe on behalf of a European abstractionist. Each dealer pays him $16,000 for the privilege of maintaining a monopoly on him. His minimum guarantee from the deal: $64,000 a year...
...Abstractionist Tobey is the first American to have a one man show at the Louvre. Whistler's triumph in 1905 took place at the Ecole des Beaux Arts...
...hard to digest, and the contents even harder. When the 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture opened at the Carnegie Institute last week, it put on display 329 paintings and 116 sculptures by 441 artists from 29 countries. Most of the work was abstract, with each abstractionist striving for some idiom of his own. This striving, which in a one-man show often makes each work seem like every other, has the opposite effect in a group show like the Carnegie's. There the effect is not of monotony but of sense-assaulting variety...
...prize for painting went to Seattle's Veteran Abstractionist Mark Tobey (see color). Tobey, now 71, first got hooked on what he calls "white writing" during a trip to China where he became fascinated by the age-old romance between calligraphy and painting. He began to see nature not as a cluster of shapes but as rhythm and vitality expressed in racing lines. At first glance Tobey's canvases sometimes seem like decorative screens, with nature hidden somewhere behind. Actually they are just the opposite: examined closely, they become a battleground of forces whose struggles extend into realms...