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At 23, Richard Anuszkiewicz was a colorless young man-technically speaking, that is. "I was painting still lifes that were getting greyer and greyer," he recalls, still amazed at the helplessness he felt. The tonic he needed was the famous course given at Yale by Josef Albers, who has spent...
Albers is best known for his squares within squares, which leave his colors entirely independent of anything but the simplest form. Anuszkiewicz, now 33, keeps an equally rigid control over his work, but he allows his colors to perform in far more complex settings. In 1960, he began a series...
Manhattan's revamped Jewish Museum this week opens an instructive show called "Toward a New Abstraction," with 47 works by nine of these artists. At first glance, the hard-edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare...
The usually traditional U.S. Post Office Department last week recognized the existence of contemporary art. To Uruguayan-born Artist Antonio Frasconi. 44. went the department's $500 prize for his winning entry in a contest to pick a stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of...
Some of the best-known artists in the U.S. are represented by the 55 prints in the show: Josef Albers, Jasper Johns. Fritz Glarner, Al Blaustein and Ben Shahn are among the 42 printmakers. Many of them started in other mediums, only to find new planes of expression through the...