Word: bengston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earthy Aphorist. If the public was slow to discover Blair, young avant-garde artists were not. Such radicals as Edward Kienholz and Billy Al Bengston forgathered at the old house Blair had bought in Los Angeles, admired his paintings and delighted in his company. Blair always gave them coffee (he kept careful records on just how each guest preferred it) and his own home-baked bread, for which he won many prizes at county fairs. Afterward, everybody pitched horseshoes in the backyard and listened to Blair's inexhaustible tales of his and other people's pasts. His speech...
...approximately 50% of the paintings at the Whitney. How varied nonobjectiveness can be is illustrated by the op grids of Cleveland's Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold, and the sheet of lacquered aluminum from Los Angeles' Billy Al Bengston (representative of what one Whitney curator dubbed California's "finish fetish"). But abstraction as an end in itself is on the wane. Artists everywhere are tending to combine it with figurative elements, or give their abstractions the illusion of three-dimensional space. One shaped canvas by Washington...
Outdoorsy Place. "We frankly can hardly wait to see the Renaissance stuff," says Billy Al Bengston, one of Los Angeles' pop artists. He is hardly alone. Although the doors will not officially open until this week, museum memberships (at $10 each) have been rolling in at the rate of 200 a day for months. Director Brown expects more than 2,000,000 visitors in the first year, and one aide fears that it might reach...
...BILLY AL BENGSTON, 29, an ardent affluent-society motorcyclist (he owns four), goes in for concentric emblems, usually centered on a symbol such as a sergeant's stripes. Bengston sometimes uses an auto-body painter's spray gun to lay on glossy hot-rodder colors. "I use a lot of the concepts used in motorcycles," he says. "It's a kind of companionship I can understand...
Last week the 22 exhibitions ran the gamut of modernism, from a show of Arp and Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow...