Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncharted Seas. Confronting the jury, as the members wheeled about the galleries, was an array of the styles that have turned contemporary painting into a seething, uncharted sea of rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's...
Lesser awards went to Italy's Renato Birolli, 49, for his dramatic composition of lightning in a vineyard; to Chilean-born Painter Matta, 43, for a 10-ft.-long canvas filled with bedazzling pyrotechnics that looked like a combined château and gasworks in hell the night the...
Sock in the Eye. In introducing the public to this year's exhibition, the show's catalogue warned: "The language of painting is not translatable. One must learn to read it directly from pictures." But even the jury admitted that the public's baffled bewilderment indicates that...
At the moment Calcagno signed up, the California School, under Painters Clyfford Still and Mark Rotako, was the center of abstract painting on the West Coast. Students cut out the preliminaries, went straight to work slapping paint on canvas "to get through to an immediate sensory perception."
Though the new Continental has been redesigned from rubber to roof, it is deliberately reminiscent of its famed predecessor. The body is long (18 ft. 2 in.) and low (56 in.). The spare-tire mount, a hallmark of the old Continental, is now molded into the trunk lid. Under its...