Word: bischoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshest of West Coast art, which is the newest rage on the U.S. gallery scene (see color pages). Less than five years ago, the closest thing to an art movement that California could boast was a group of San Francisco-centered figurative painters, such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, who softly focused abstract expressionism on the human figure. Now, whether one considers it a good thing or bad, the West Coast is truly vying with New York insofar as a freshness in art is concerned...
...ELMER BISCHOFF-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. One of the brightest exemplars of the figurative San Francisco school, which more than a decade ago sprang full-bloom from abstract expressionism, Bischoff neatly tucks nymphs in the waves of a white-capped breakwater or barely hides them behind the curtain of a sun-filled room. Through...
...Elmer Bischoff...
...arrival at the school of Clyttord Still and later Mark Rothko were the catalysts in this conversion, but Park himself was already concerned with "big abstract ideals like vitality, energy, profundity warmth." His own abstractions, as his 'friend, Painter Elmer Bischoff, describes them, were "goopy, sensuous arrangements of forms," but ironically, Park never found in goopiness the freedom that other artists did. Instead of losing himself in his work, he became overly concerned with style and technique. "I was artificially putting together forms," he said. And so in 1950, Park painted a figurative picture called Kids on Bikes...
...text adapted from Helga Mauersberger, pictures by Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff; Franklin Watts; $3.95) rollicks through the cycle of the seasons in an anthropocentric spree. Miss Sunshine is the high-powered female producer of the solar show. Her problem actor is Cousin Rain, a climatological cut-up who releases Mr. Thunder and Mr. Lightning from their padlocked castle. Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season. The pixyish, Chagall-accented illustrations set the special tone...