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Fame came belatedly, perhaps because of his modest nature. In 1936 he created four reliefs for the Paris world's fair. In 1950, Henri Matisse shared the Venice Biennale's grand prize with Laurens; in 1953, Laurens won the Sao Paulo Bienal's grand prize. He died of a heart attack a year later at the age of 69, and since then, through half a dozen major exhibitions, critics have waxed ever more enthusiastic, calling him the single most important French sculptor of the century. Plans call for the current monumental show to tour abroad for several...
...success; his oils were being bought by the Metropolitan Museum, and his realism was accepted as the quintessence of the search for American roots and the often angry realism of Depression-era artists. Last March he was named the keystone artist to represent America at the 1967 Sao Paulo Bienal. Said Brandeis University's William Seitz, who made the selection: "There is no other master who can better represent what is most characteristic of art in the U.S. A pioneer in representing 'unpaintable' American subjects, he provides a bridge from the Ashcan School to the decade...
...next September's Sao Paulo Bienal, the U.S. will be represented by such pop artists as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. But by startling contrast, William Seitz, former curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who picked the entries, opted for a real grandpop to stage the major U.S. one-man show: Edward Hopper, 84, an old master of realism whose cityscapes go back to his association with the "Ashcan" realists. When someone suggested that Hop might be a bit old-fashioned to be keeping such company, Seitz snapped: "It would be ridiculous to eliminate the best...
...Jackson Pollock, once a disciple of Thomas Hart Benton, turned out drab American factory scenes and landscapes in his search for a new style, later went on to produce his famous drip paintings. Adolph Gottlieb, another abstract expressionist who won first prize at the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienal, had to be content in 1939 to win a commission for a mural in the Yerington, Nev., post office...
...awards at a county fair were hardly satisfied. Rio's O Globo labeled Burri's latest "the mere decorative futility of burnt holes in transparent plastic." Correio da Manha simply called the prizes "a scandal." Surely exaggerated, but the overall impact of the São Paulo Bienal was like that of most conventions-fatigue and confusion...