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Just out of the Navy, John Hultberg in 1947 enrolled in San Francisco's California School of Fine Arts, and it seemed that artistically there was only one course for him to steer. Abstractionism was the powerful new movement, and some of its most famous practitioners-notably Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko-were his teachers. Hultberg has nothing but admiration for these men-but purely abstract painting...
...sickles were only a small part of WBAI's offering. A fine panel discussion tied up "Payola and Mental Poverty" in broadcasting, a series of two-hour lectures began on "The History of Music," and other shows looked into fields that varied from "The Art of Clyfford Still" to "The Death of a Wombat...
...Francisco. The California School of Fine Arts, which in the 1930s had brought Diego Rivera to San Francisco, had suddenly burst into life again, this time around two fiery abstract painters, Russian-born Mark Rothko, who was scrubbing canvases with shimmering bands of color, and North Dakota-born Clyfford Still, whose outsize paintings suggested both Western canyons and bark peeled from a tree. Talented younger men (notably Sam Francis and Lawrence Calcagno) spread the Rothko-Still gospel in staccato dab-and-dash across the U.S. and on to Paris and Rome...
Beware of Death. But Clyfford Still, 54, pushed on into abstraction with never a backward look. He treats art as an apocalyptic vision, refuses to let visitors (even buyers) inside his door, recently turned down the offer of a one-man show at Venice's Biennale because of his professed fear that it would be misinterpreted as catering to "the praise of Vanity Fair." "A painting in the wrong hands is a highly dangerous force," Still hints darkly, "just like a mathematical equation...
...CLYFFORD STILL New York