Word: expressionistic
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What is perhaps most notable about the current Fogg exhibition of works from the Abstract Expressionist period is simply its presence in the museum which seems hard-pressed to give much attention to the existence of modern art. The Fogg has presented several temporary shows of modern art in recent years, but the museum keeps its permanent collection of twentieth century work largely away from the public gaze in libraries, offices and storerooms...
...show is not a truly representative sampling of abstract expressionism in that it does not contain some of the abstract expressionist works typically thought of with the school and because it includes a few artists who are not strictly abstract expressionists. The holes in the Fogg's collection of work from the period and the fact that the exhibit is designed in conjunction with a current Fine Arts department offering on the subject, may explain why this exhibit does not provide the public with a sampling of great and famous moments in abstract expressionism...
...experiences in Jungian analysis. This work which incorporates primitivesque figures and symbols reminds us that Pollock did not spend his entire artistic career dripping paint on canvas on his way to fame, fortune and artistic fulfillment. But even if "Figure" provides a good academic lesson, any show of abstract expressionist work is incomplete, as this one proves, without a mature Pollock to epitomize the nature and aims of the period--an expression of the unconscious through the emotional versus formalist use of color, line, paint and abstraction...
...Otto Dix, or the Dada visions of mechanized man by Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch, are on view again in Paris. But the new show deepens the argument by paying more attention to the social and political aims of the German artists and to the country's expressionist art that preceded the outbreak of World...
...painter named Eleanore Lock-speiser, Mary Frank came to New York during World War II. At 17, she married the photographer Robert Frank. Although she had no formal training as a sculptor, she did study drawing in Manhattan during the '50s under Hans Hofmann, the doyen of abstract expressionist teachers. More important for her work, however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best of them possess the unfolding completeness of dance. Her work...