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Freckle-faced Joyce Treiman hurls herself at canvas with the intuitive abandon of an action painter, piling on pigment in swooshes and swirls. What emerges is not abstraction but a troubling glimpse of the individual caught up in what she calls "a singular, momentary event." Her figures (see opposite page...
(Their dog is called Mr. Bonnard.) Behind her seemingly bland suburban life, she is passionately preoccupied with the conflict between appearance and reality. Her bizarrely clad and contorted figures, divided fore and aft in space, are rounded with confusing contours, so that they float between the flat surface of the...
Close to the canvas himself in the third and seemingly helpless in the fifth, Clay entered the sixth round obviously stronger than the 31 (sic)-year-old Liston. Clay was never hit with the full impact of Liston's awesome left hook, but he withstood considerable punishment and retained the...
The Sculls have commissioned 15 new paintings during the past ten years, including several family portraits. Andy Warhol, when asked to do a portrait of Ethel, put her in an automatic snapshot studio in Times Square and fed heaps of quarters into it. "Now start smiling and talking," said the...
KARL KNATHS-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. The Cape Cod beachcomber looks for poetry and finds it. Painter Knaths, 72, splits space into cubistic slabs of color, lets the canvas-by exposing it here and there-speak for itself, sending blasts of light through black architectural frames. A mixed bag of...