Word: expressionist
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ANDRE DERAIN-Hutton, 41 East 57th St. Forty-four bronzes by a painter who sculpted for fun. Also at Hutton: a groupt of German expressionist painters, including Gabriele Münter, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky. Through...
...Barnett Newman's eccentric, hard-edge stripes in his Black Fire to Robert Rauschenberg's Trophy II, a pop art combine in four pieces equipped with a real glass of water on a shelf with a spoon kerplunk in it. The only true portraits, surprisingly, are Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Marilyn Monroe and Pop Artist James Rosenquist's Portrait of the Scull Family. Little-known names among the 102 were Australia's Brett Whiteley and a young Indian named Mohan Samant...
Marisol Escobar-or Marisol, as she is known professionally-studied under the noted abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, and, she says dryly, "I painted like a Hofmann student." But though she learned much from her master, he was quickly supplanted by a series of happenstance influences that sent Marisol off on a strange and appealing tangent of her own. In a friend's house, for instance, she saw some small Mexican boxes filled with hand-carved painted figures, and she was enchanted. In another house, she was drawn to an old-fashioned coffee grinder that had the shape...
...works in broad strokes, so swiftly that she can finish even a group portrait within a couple of hours. She relies almost as much on pure intuition in portraits as in her abstract expressionist work. "If I paint fast, the painting becomes unconscious, almost as if someone else was doing the painting and I the manual labor...
...beginning a portrait, she may, as any abstract expressionist might, start anywhere-the feet, the head, even the background. What she is after is not an exact likeness "like the right kind of nose, but rather, character resemblance." As she explains it: when someone sees a familiar person in a flash of light, he does not recognize the person feature by feature but by the total impression, the bearing, silhouette, posture or some dominating characteristic. In her portrait of Art Critic Frank O'Hara, on view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery last week, the face is painted...