Word: expressionistic
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...Words; it consisted simply of random words lettered on pieces of paper that spectators were invited to staple at random onto the walls of a room. The idea, Kaprow explains now, was to create an intentionally sloppy, three-dimensional roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow was also reviving and extending the then quiescent Dadaist tradition. One of his inspirations: the wondrous Merzbau assembled by German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters between 1924 and 1933. It consisted of rooms...
Some of the more satisfying of this season's offerings in Manhattan's smaller theaters: Ergo, a wacky expressionist exercise by Austrian Writer Jakov Lind; In Circles, an aptly named circular play by Gertrude Stein set to circular music by Al Carmines; Iphigenia in Aulis, a Euripedean antiwar drama that has lost little of its force through the centuries; The Indian Wants The Bronx, Israel Horovitz's study of the savagery that can lurk on any street; Your Own Thing, a marvelously modern, inventive and sophisticated rock version of Twelfth Night...
...first piece installed in the Adams House Library is an oil painting by abstract-expressionist Bernard Dufford (1922-1956) entitled "Composition...
...London painters (TIME, Oct. 9, 1964) with one Baconesque series of 25 paintings, all showing his pretty young wife nude in the bath, plus another series depicting the passionate antics of Sex Murderer John Christie. His latest show at Marlborough New London Gallery is difficult to characterize. Is it expressionist? Surrealist? Pop? Funk? Hard to say, but critics find Whiteley's new work infinitely greater in depth and sophistication...
Texas, as everybody knows, thrives on super-scale. So naturally, the art season in Houston started off with two handsome shows dedicated to four maximal creators. At the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Director James Johnson Sweeney has a mammoth retrospective of the works of Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis, 44, whose canvases have been getting so large that he is building a new studio in California in which to paint them. And Houston's University of St. Thomas Art Gallery put on view 147 designs by three farsighted 18th century French architects, one of whom envisioned a gargantuan stadium...