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Curves & Squares. For Manhattan Physician Howard Taylor, Architect John M. Johansen has built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough...
...NEIL WELLIVER, 34, who teaches architectural drawing at Yale, had such divergent mentors as the old Bauhaus sage Josef Albers and Abstract Collagist Corrado Marca-Relli. He synthesizes the former's color sense with the latter's pancake flatness...
...advertise, they have put on some admirable prestige shows, such as an exhibition of Van Gogh self-portraits and a show of the works of the Bauhaus. They send out the glossiest catalogues, give the flossiest cocktail parties. What bothers their competitors is the brash commercialism with which they do all this. "I'm sorry to have to admit it," says Lloyd's son Gilbert, who is now on the staff, "but Marlborough is the most hated gallery in London...
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, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children...
...exhibition honoring architect Walter Gropius on his 80th birthday will be on display at the Loeb Drama Center until June 15. The exhibition was organized by the Bauhaus Archive, Darmstadt, and was brought to the United States by the West German Consul in Boston...