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Lichtenstein was touted early as a potential winner; indeed his dealer, Leo Castelli, went hoarse lobbying for him. But then so were Sweden's Oyvind Fahl-strom, who makes pop cutouts, Britain's Sculptor Anthony Caro, who studied with Henry Moore, and Germany's young expressionist Horst Antes, who mashes anatomy into a strudel of bright colors. Actually, in sculpture at least, the laurels were split between two rather conservative choices: Etienne Martin, 53, of France, who was rumored to have received a helping hand from Culture Minister Andre Malraux, and Robert Jacobsen, 54, of Denmark...
Satanism & Embroidery. The largest Beardsley exhibit ever shown opened last week in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. And though the artist's work seemed to critics of his time as saccharinely pornographic as orgies sculpted in marzipan, the exhibition recalls his widespread influence. Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch based some of his violent images directly on Beardsley drawings. The ballet impresario Daighilev had sets designed from Beardsley. Kandinsky and even Picasso were admirers. Beardsley's sense of abstract design even relates to the hard-edge abstraction practiced today...
...from the sky, but they were sensual." Adds Marini: "I always begin sculpting by painting-afterward the colored image remains in my mind, so then I have to add color to the sculpture." His paintings presage his excursions into solid stuff, explaining in their strong chromaticism Marini's expressionist sculpture. In pursuing his vision, Marini took his equestrians on a strange course through the steeplechase of time. At first, he made his man and horse strain as one being toward a high point of joy. Then, as the years passed, he began portraying man in his canvases and sculptures...
...like social protest turned into a protest against the canons of art. Jackson Pollock, once a disciple of Thomas Hart Benton, turned out drab American factory scenes and landscapes in his search for a new style, later went on to produce his famous drip paintings. Adolph Gottlieb, another abstract expressionist who won first prize at the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienal, had to be content in 1939 to win a commission for a mural in the Yerington, Nev., post office...
Fear of Another Kind. Juxtapositions of paintings also suggest hitherto unexpected correspondences. In the decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...