Word: burlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 59-year-old Artist Paul Burlin won first prize in Pepsi-Cola's "Portrait of America" contest (TIME, Nov. 19), he was happy to get the $2,500, said it "comes in handy." By last week he was less happy about it. Pepsi-Cola apparently did not agree with the artists' jury which had given top honors to Burlin's Soda Jerker. Burlin's heavily satirical picture, which was as cluttered as a cosmetics counter and as messy-looking as a spilled sundae, had been omitted from Pepsi-Cola's New Year calendar, which...
...surprising $2,500 first prize winner* was a cluttered, satirical Soda Jerker by 5 9-year-old Manhattan-born modernist Paul Burlin. Pepsi-Cola, which reproduces prizewinners on a calendar, carefully omitted Soda Jerker. Burlin painted it nine years ago, before he ever heard of Pepsi-Cola, to show the drugstore "as an ironic, decorative melange. It's a hell of a place...
Expressionists, Abstractionists. The work of Kootz's own modern favorites is derived from the "expressionists [who] use the psychology of color ... to express a moody, mystic Weltschmerz." He singles out Abraham Rattner, Walter Quirt, Paul Burlin. Of Rattner (see cut), he remarks...