Word: abstractionist
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...Critic Monteverdi was not the only one to be exasperated; walking up to U.S. Abstractionist Franz Kline (himself a $1,600 prizewinner), Fautrier reportedly told him that his work "stinks." Kline's reply, so the story goes, was a realistic right to the jaw that dumped Fautrier on the seat of his pants...
Born 34 years ago in Port Arthur Kauschenberg supposed "that all painters go to Paris." He made his way there as a student but disliked the talky atmosphere. In 1948 he read a TIME article about Abstractionist Josef Albers' art teaching at Black Mountain College, and hurried home to sit at Albers' feet: "He taught me that there is something to see in anything if you just look." That seems to be the message of Rauschenberg...
...Manhattan, Gallery Owner André Emmerich has published A Preface and Four Seasons, which combines the pleasant, anecdotal reveries of Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw with five signed lithographs by fast-rising U.S. Abstractionist-in-Paris John Levee, 35. The text accompanying Levee's Images of European Summer (see color) draws on Shaw's own expatriate ramblings, summons up visions of "the sea calm, the sun hot. Everybody lazy and on holiday." Offshore a party on an aircraft carrier makes "the final perfect touch against the violet horizon." Sales to date: eight (which included a signed gouache...
After reading the Art section in the March 16 issue, with the illustration of the "masterpiece" by Barcelona Abstractionist Antoni Tapies called Grey Borders, I went out quickly to my car. On the floor I found a similar "artistic gem." I had always known my treasure as the floor...
...sharp angle revealed that the papers were actually prints, but made without ink. They were geometrical constellations of straight, raised and interlocking lines, embossed on the paper. On close inspection the lines proved to border geometrical shapes in space, which seemed to keep shifting. These were puzzle pictures by Abstractionist Josef Albers...