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...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...
...aging Emil Nolde became the only major German expressionist to join the Nazi Party. Much good it did him. For all his Frisian peasant conservatism, the Nazis soon called him a "degenerate" modern artist and stripped his works from German museums. In 1941, he was forbidden to sell his art or even to paint. At 73, Nolde retreated from Berlin to his summer home in Seebull, not far from his birthplace on the North Sea coast-but he did not stop painting. To his diary he revealed: "I still hold my head high, and only to you, my little pictures...
...artist, who was born Marisol Escobar in Paris 36 years ago, of Venezuelan parents, studied in New York under the noted abstract expressionist, Hans Hofmann. Her much-sought-after work is in several U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Modern Art and the Whitney. She usually works more slowly than she did on her TIME commission, will spend as much as three months on a single piece in the company of her cairn terrier, Trolli...