Word: abstractionist
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...color instead of clothes. Color first and house after, not house first and color after," he said. Last week his most famous student, Edwin Dickinson, recalled: "More than anyone else, Hawthorne appreciated the fact that plane relationships are better expressed through comparative values of color than through drawing." Adds Abstractionist Hans Hofmann, who became a part of the Provincetown colony in 1934: "As a painter, Hawthorne cast aside every doctrine-so that he might surpass the limitations of calculation and construction...
...Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either the paintings or the proceeds from the alleged moonlighting operations, plus $122,000 in damages...
...brainchild of Chase Manhattan's personable president, David Rockefeller, 45, the new building unmistakably bears the Rockefeller touch. To decorate it, Rockefeller sparked the purchase of $500,000 worth of art, ranging from African primitives to a rectangle of muted colors by Abstractionist Kenzo Okada. In Rockefeller's private washroom hangs a color lithograph by Cezanne...
...that, even when dry, his canvases manage to look fluid. The colors float into view as if they had been poured like cream into iced coffee and for a moment were suspended. They merge or resist one another, but they are never smeared. To some of Jenkins' abstractionist colleagues they seem a bit too slick, but no one denies their flowing grace...
...Make Magic. Unlike many of his abstractionist colleagues. Hofmann has the virtue of variety. Some of his canvases seem tormented, as if they had been pushed and pulled a bit too hard...