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ALFRED MANESSIER, 43, sometime architect from Picardy, an abstractionist (he calls his painting "supra-rational") who uses colors that glow like Rouault's. Like Rouault, Manessier underwent a religious crisis which he resolved in a brief retreat to a Trappist monastery. Manessier's subsequent work has often had a kind of vaulted Gothic mysticism...
Back in England she found another great influence on both her life and her art. In 1930 she saw the work of British Abstractionist Ben Nicholson for the first time, an experience which "helped to release all of my energies for an exploration of free sculptural form." She fell in love with the painter as well as the paintings, and three years later she and Nicholson were married. It was about this time in her career that Sculptress Hepworth began to put holes in her carvings: "I . . . felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make...
Epstein's blast was only the most recent in a row that has been rumbling ever since Abstractionist Reg Butler's cagelike Prisoner won first prize in the competition and an infuriated visitor to the show crushed the winning model in his fists. (His punishment: ten months on probation and 10 guineas in costs.) Readers flooded the London press with outraged letters; critics wrote denunciations of Butler's work; students daubed one of his other sculptures with paint. And when word got around that Butler hoped his Prisoner would be erected on some such site...
...past year, few artists have had a faster rise to international fame than British Abstractionist Graham Sutherland. His thorny landscapes were a major attraction of last summer's Venice Biennale; he recently had a huge exhibition in Paris, is scheduled for another big show during British coronation festivities, and has been asked to paint a portrait of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Last week Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art put 49 Sutherland pictures on exhibit-the biggest cross section of his work ever shown...
...Nervously waiting for the show's opening this week. Artist Lloyd had no idea what kind of artist he should call himself -expressionist? abstractionist? or what? Frank Perls, owner of the Beverly Hills gallery where Lloyd's work will be shown, has it all figured out. "Just as Rousseau was a primitive impressionist." he announced, "Lloyd is a primitive abstractionist, completely natural and undisturbed by the art of the past...