Word: abstractionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love it. Connoisseurs croon over the "technical mastery" of a Jackson Pollock (who dribbles his colors from pails of paint). They borrow such Hans Hofmann phrases as "push and pull on the picture surface" and "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense" to praise a Hofmann canvas. When Abstractionist Willem de Kooning admits that he is "still working out of doubt," they can hardly bring themselves to believe...
...sorts. Painter Guston's reputation is solidly based on complex still lifes and figure paintings. His tame, placid portrait of a plump-armed girl won top honors at the 1945 Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years ago, Guston turned his back on easy success, joined the abstractionist ranks. His latest exhibition in a Manhattan gallery features huge canvases thinly blotched with pale colors, and greyish ribbons of paint trailing, snail-like, over slush-hued backgrounds. His sketch for the exhibition catalogue, an apparently random doodle of short, jerky dashes, is a fair sample of the new Guston...
...inspired painting-it's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation . . . Toulouse-Lautrec's art isn't just pictures of dancing girls and cabarets; it projects some sort of internal world. And you couldn't exactly call Ucello an abstractionist. But he has the ambiguity I like...
...Abstractionist Hans Jaenisch, 43, is considered one of Germany's most "promising" artists. Like Hofer, he lost most of his lifework to allied bombs, but Jaenisch was almost pleased when he returned from a Texas P.W. camp and found his paintings gone. "It left me free to begin all over again." Jaenisch's Air Lift: is one of 20 paintings he did on the same theme. The first few in the series reflect his early vision of the planes as "terrifying animals moving through the air. On these fearful creatures our whole life hung." By the time...
...tastes do change. When Peter Blume's big, weird, neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...