Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pendulum swings," explains Richard Tuttle. "Pop was with the commercial image. It was a fight against the esoteric thing of abstract expressionism. Now this esoteric thing is coming back." Adds De Maria: "These works are secret-hard to get to. They put commitment back into art...
...that the new compulsion to record the process owes much to action painters like Jackson Pollock, whose huge drip canvases were a tapestry of color-and a record of the act. "Pollock had no heirs in the 1950s," says Morris. "But now people are involved with the physicality of art, in the all-overness, the aggressiveness of the medium, in, the material having its own properties...
Saret once dumped 200 Ibs. of sulphur on the gallery floor. Was it meant to be salable? Perhaps not, for a surprisingly large number of the process artists feel that the business of buying and selling art has been overemphasized. "My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors," snorts David Lee. "It's art for living, for turning on with." Rather than produce art that would sell, he supports himself by carpentry and writing. "I feel ridiculous, selling my work at a gallery," says Bellinger, who would prefer to make his work in quantity and sell it cheaply...
Pushing the Limits. This does not mean that far-out art lacks for collectors...
Manhattan Publisher Eugene Schwartz, for one, is fascinated. "Painting has been getting complicated again, brushwork and expressionism are coming back," he says, citing the expressively sprayed canvases of Jules Olitski and the newly fluid pictures of Larry Poons. "New art is disturbing to everybody," warns a big pop collector, Robert Scull, who is also a major patron of the newer art. "It takes a realignment of your computer to like it." Says Jan Van der Marck, director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art: "They are doing just what the pop artists did; they are pushing the limits...