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...subject matter; and although platoons of later critics would discuss abstract expressionism in purely formalist terms, the painters themselves were obsessed by content. "We assert," said Mark Rothko, "that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless." His "we" included Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Theodores Stamos and, in greater or lesser degrees, all the abstract expressionists with the possible exception of de Kooning...
...friends may feel wholly at ease," and she ran it in that Jamesian way until 1969, keeping Yaddo short on rules (no visitors from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and long on big-name residents. They included James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Hopper, Louis Kronenberger, Carson McCullers and Clyfford Still. John Cheever, another visitor, credited Mrs. Ames with a "softly imperious" ability to keep Yaddo running smoothly, though faced with "a zoo of cranky artists...
...That was my country-terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness." The paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), an artist ignored by the histories of American art, now seem the obvious relay station between the crags and glaciers of the 19th century sublime and the jagged forms of Clyfford Still. To a New York audience, Tack's extraordinarily subtle paintings, which mediate between abstraction and landscape imagery, will seem almost familiar -be cause they predict and predate so much American painting of the '50s. Even the rhetoric is familiar; one finds Tack in 1920 describing a 'valley...
...there is an eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still. The history of abstract expressionism, the movement that did most to coalesce the once frail identity of American art, is unimaginable without his vast Wagnerian canvases. But 15 years have passed since Still quit Manhattan in disgust for a ten-acre farm in Westminster, Md., and during that time his execrations of the "arrogant farce" of the art world-its neuroses, its museums, its critics, and their failure to come to grips with his work-have not ceased to be heard. He is the Coriolanus...
...enticing names like Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, and Robert Motherwell. These paintings are shown in a sick yellow light made uneven by baby spots. This would be disastrous for any paintings but especially these--most rely heavily on color impact. The only painting which looks decent Is one of Clyfford Still's; he was after horrifying color for his craggy paintings anyway...