Word: abstractionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Although the beaches of both camps were well sprinkled with pelicans, the huge show had a hard core of excellence. Perhaps a score of the 559 pictures transcend both expressionist strutting and abstractionist wing-flapping, as well as prosaic egg-laying. For two such pictures-standouts among the six watercolor award winners-see following page...
...Piper had stayed in Paris, he might have been an abstractionist still. But he and his wife moved to a 17th century farmhouse in a valley near Henley-on-Thames. Gradually, the nature he saw around him drew him off on another track. His new style set out to blend geometric designs with the more amorphous shapes of reality-or, as he once expressed it, "a combination of a crystal and a potato, with neither predominating too much...