Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ripe for Ribbing. In his early period, Lichtenstein was a latter-day abstract expressionist. When he turned to subject matter, he happened on comic strips, he explains, "because of their anti-artistic image and because they are such a modern subject." He took over the whole cartoon vocabulary, including printers' Benday dots (originally suggested to him by the exaggerated dots on a bubble-gum wrapper), primary Magna colors, heavy, black-outlined forms. "I like taking a discredited subject and putting it into a new unity," Lichtenstein says (currently he is working with 1930s pseudo-Bauhaus modern), "I was serious...
...post-abstract expressionist era of the '60s, modern art has been racing ahead at a frantic clip that is a challenge to its chroniclers. In recent years the editors have taken the readers through the worlds of pop and op (a TIME coinage, by the way) and on to kinetic and minimal. This week it's luminal. In a wide-ranging story, the Art section surveys the work of a new group of practitioners who "paint" in light. As usual in TIME, the story is supported by a portfolio of color illustrations...
...eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, fabled for his whiplash paintings, truculent insistence on wearing cowboy boots, and his drunken rages, has ceased to be regarded as a guru among his fellow artists. A more sophisticated public is no longer shocked by the fact that he dribbled and threw paint at his monumental canvases instead of applying it with a brush. For those accustomed to the bright glow of neon, even his colors seem calm. In short, Pollock has become something that many artists dread more...
...Lindner: "He broke through the traditions of the European painters. Don't forget the time-when he painted, America was very dependent on European tradition. In 50 years, Pollock will probably be more important than he is today-maybe not as a painter, but for liberation." Said Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who did not attend the opening: "Pollock broke...
Wilson admits that he has been influenced by Mucha, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and "the expressionist idea of really putting it out there...