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Then came a wry event. Abstract paintings by a fiery Catalonian named Antoni Tàpies won a prize for Spain at the Venice Biennale, followed by first prize at the Carnegie International. It dawned on Madrid that themeless abstractions have no power to topple a government but could serve to speak to the world of a more modern, talented and open Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: Iberian Resurgence | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel, and Werner Haftmann, German art historian. The jury also gave prizes of $2,500 each to Wifredo Lam, a Cuban who works in Italy; Robert Motherwell of the U.S.; Spain's Antoni Tapies and Victor de Vasarely, a Hungarian who lives in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Painting Contests | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...ANTONI TAPIES-Martha Jackson, 32 East 69th St. Lumpy canvases filled with shapes hacked and gouged out of rubberized marble dust have a grim sobriety that evokes the sun-parched Catalan world the artist lives in. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...joined la boulangerie. From Harvard, in a later generation, came Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, and Arthur Berger. Elliott Carter, Marc Blitzstein, Bernard Rogers, Roger Goeb, David Diamond, Ross Lee Finney, Howard Swanson, Easley Blackwood--all composed under her tutelage. Among the Europeans she taught were Igor Markevitch, Jean Francaix, Antoni Szalowski, and Darius Milhaud...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: To Organize Time: A Sketch of Nadia Boulanger | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...apparently justify any means. Manolo Millares, 34, dips burlap into white paint, bunches and tears it, smears and daubs it with black. If he ends up with something vaguely resembling a figure, he calls it Homunculus, and some of his homunculi look rather like decayed and mangled ghosts. Antoni Tapies, 36, who abandoned the University of Barcelona law school to take up painting in 1946, heaps his canvases with paint, then gouges, cuts and scrapes. His Three Stains on Grey Space is exactly what it says-three blobs of thick paint placed at the bottom of a grey canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Joyless Spaniards | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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