Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form of religion." He has long been concerned with the insights of psychiatry; Psychoanalyst Rollo May, leading U.S. exponent of "existential analysis" (TIME, Dec. 29), studied under Tillich at Union Seminary, and continues to keep in close touch with him. He is also keenly interested in modern art, and has written and lectured extensively on how art manifests "ultimate reality...
...shouting is about, Manhattanites last week were flocking to a Tàpies exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery. A few of those who came to praise remained to scoff, and vice versa, for Tàpies does not fit the abstract-expressionist fashion. Though fiercely independent, his art is more cool than hot, more gloomy than exuberant and more calm than wild...
...pies (pronounced Top-ee-ess) has the proud bearing of a bullfighter, has been called the black prince of contemporary art. Urged to follow his father in the practice of law, he turned to art when a serious bout with tuberculosis ended his career at the University of Barcelona. Hospitalized for two years, he learned exquisite draftsmanship, developed a consuming interest in the devious disciplines of surrealism...
Surrealism requires ideas of some sort, as abstract expressionism does not, and it still helps give weight and variety to Tàpies' now wholly abstract art. He finally abandoned recognizable images because, he explains, "abstraction can touch many springs in the human spirit, whereas realism can touch only...
...pies studies philosophy, tries to express something of "its tranquility and austerity" in his dark art. The predominantly grey coloring of his pictures does not give a colorless effect but, like a pebble in a stream bed, hints at a glistening multitude of hues. Grey Borders (see cut) reminds Tàpies of a "well-raked garden in a Zen Buddhist temple," but he is quick to point out that he saw a photo of such a garden only after finishing the picture. Certainly it is both austere and serene; if it also seems pretty empty, it is the emptiness...