Word: expressionist
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...your right. "Everyone was loose and free and easy," Fagin says of the pseudo-utopia he and his writer friends created. "I know it seems idyllic, but maybe it was." Like the School of Paris in painting, the New York School of Poets-closely linked to emerging abstract expressionist artists-was simply a group of writers defined by their common vocation and narrow geographical living space...
When Wassily Kandinsky was asked how he and the German painter Franz Marc first came up with the name for their Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Kandinsky had an amusingly simple explanation: "We both loved blue," he said, "Marc horses and I riders. So the name seemed obvious." The new exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, Franz Marc: Horses, has perhaps taken its cue from Kandinsky's anecdote. Spotlighting in particular Marc's "Grazing Horses IV (The Red Horses)," the exhibit celebrates a single, simple theme: Marc's love of and fascination with horses. But the effect...
...shorthand biographies of Watts and Kaprow reveal a commonality of experience if not direction: both began as abstract expressionist painters, both got master's degrees from Columbia, both collaborated on the Rutgers faculty. And both challenged traditional conceptions of art-Watts with his pop-like manipulation of media and surfaces and Kaprow in his experiments with assemblages, alternative spaces and performance art events which he called happenings...
...Memorable are two early paintings by Kaprow, both of which reveal his abstract expressionist training: "Hysteria," a visually assaulting assemblage of painted fragments and mirrors, and "Rearrangeable Panels," a series of nine wall-sized panels which have been presented in any number of concatenations. Though each panel is derivative of Robert Rauschenberg in painterly technique and choice of materials (plastic fruits, leaves, mirrors, colored lightbulbs), the piece as a whole reveals an attitude of Dadaist whimsy in the operation of chance, in the perpetual disruption of predetermined order. Also by Kaprow are a series of photographs and instruction sheets from...
...clear tour de force of the exhibit is the surprisingly complete array of work by Watts, including early drawings and paintings, mail-order newsletters and found objects. Just as Kaprow's early paintings revealed abstract expressionist beginnings, so too do Watts's "Blink" and "Monhegan" drawings...