Word: avant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painting award ($2,400): Wisconsin-born Seattle Painter Mark Tobey, 67 (TiME, July 22), whose sensitive oils of squirming lines of light had already attracted critical applause. Top international prize for sculpture ($2,400) went to Spain's Eduardo Chillida, 34, whose spiky forgings were among the most avant-garde entries...
...throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters. Hitler disagreed, called him "degenerate" and banned his works...
...case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg, creator of the twelve-tone system, Avant-Gardist Kokoschka found a personality streak that he shared: a sense of persecution by the crowd. "When we talked," Kokoschka recalled last week, "it was only about the stupidity of society. We were both despised at the time. Schoenberg received many rotten eggs in the face, and I used to be called a jailbird...
...Garde, Avant-Garde...
...young Richard Diebenkorn for having had the courage to break with the "new academy of abstraction." I am getting bored by the still-growing multitude of poor imitators of the 40-year-old experiments by Kandinsky, Klee and Mondrian, who, while never reaching them, insist on calling themselves the avant-gardists of our time...