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...KITAJ, 32 (he never uses his given names, Ronald Brooks), is a Yank, actually. Cleveland-born, Kitaj (rhymes with knee-high) is a brusque, opinionated intellectual who acknowledges the influence of the surrealists, and has "always been devoted to De Kooning, Clyfford Still and Pollock." Unlike them, he believes that painting should have subject matter. "The picture always takes over," says Kitaj, "but you can't help being moved by the great cultural issues peripheral to the picture." He carefully divides his time between reading and painting, produces barely ten canvases a year. In his earlier work the periphery...
...huge, enigmatic abstract slabs of saturated oil are widely sought after, but Clyfford Still, 60, is pretty picky about who gets them. "A painting in the wrong hands," he says, "is a highly dangerous force, like an equation." He tells about a young man who wanted to buy several of his works and asked, "Mr. Still, what are you trying to say?" Still answered: "You want an epigram, don't you?" The young man nodded. "So I threw him out," said Still...
...somewhat shocked by his notoriety as a Pop art collector. Of the 200-odd works he has bought, mostly by abstract expressionists, only about 40 are by Pop artists. His living room is an oasis of his earlier purchases, safe and strangely solacing works by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. But he ardently defends...
Cantankerous Clyfford Still lives like a hermit, has no dealer, rarely lets anyone buy his work without his personal approval, and as much as possible forbids exhibiting his work in group shows. Now, drawn by the chance to show at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art, where he has found a congenial teaching task, Still is exhibiting 32 major oils rarely seen before. They show that at 58 he ranks among the few skilled practitioners of abstract expressionism...
...omissions, of course, were as controversial as the selections. Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still exercised their customary refusal to be in group shows; Francis Bacon is currently miffed at Beaverbrook for selling two of his paintings, and he stayed out. The judges inexplicably omitted Hans Hofmann even as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a huge admiring retrospective of his work...