Word: abstractionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolf Kahn, 30, who first studied with Manhattan's leading abstractionist mentor, Hans Hofmann, then on his own switched to realistic pastels, now paints in a lyric, impressionist style that earns him a place among the Museum of Modern Art's new acquisitions. For his Late Afternoon (opposite), painted last summer in Provincetown, Mass., Kahn derived his inspiration from both the setting and his pretty model, Fellow Artist Emily Mason. He says of the completed work: "I tried to express tranquillity and contentment with overall lightness of tones, general vertical composition and subdued, dancing brush strokes...
Through the cold-water flats, walk-up studios, automats and bars where Manhattan's artists live and congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting...
Through the Sound Barrier. The effort involved in reorienting around a central image seemed as hard to Ferren as "breaking through the sound barrier." In fact, some such move has long been in the offing. Abstractionist Willem de Kooning first tried it with his grotesque woman images (TIME, April 4, 1953), only to relapse into abstraction. Drip Originator Jackson Pollock was himself struggling with half-glimpsed totem images before his death in an auto crash last August. Younger painters are now pulling and punching areas of pigment on their canvases to achieve a new-found "landscape look" that has been...
...Among the canvases she picked up are a boldly painted Galleria, Naples by Manhattan-born Al Blaustein, 32, and a startling Crucifixion by Abbey Scholarship Winner Thomas H. Dehill Jr., 31, of Cambridge. In Paris Mrs. Halpert found young Americans hemmed in by high costs and an abstractionist syndrome, but she spotted some work she liked, including the clouded-in abstractions of Duluth, Minn. Artist Don Fink, 33, and the bright, exuberant March Yellow by Fulbrighter John Freed, 25, of Oklahoma City...
...director of the art galleries of the University of California, Wight finds time for painting, teaching and writing all at once. This fall his latest novel (a fictional account of Modigliani's life) will appear, and his latest traveling show (of Abstractionist Hans Hofmann) will open at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Typically, Wight feels embarrassed by his varied successes. "Idon't kid myself " he says in his customary murmur, squinting as if at a disappearing bird. "This showing all over the country, or flying all over creation, is not a virtue. It's a symptom...