Word: expressionistic
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JENNINGS TOFEL-Zabriskie. 36 East 61st. The first exhibition since the death in 1959 of this protégé of Alfred Stieglitz takes a long look at the last 20 years of his career. During that time Tofel did not change much: he is always expressionist, always crowds his canvases with strange, misshapen humans and animals. His palette brightens, but the symbolism remains cloudy. Through March...
JACKSON POLLOCK-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The largest assembly-152 paintings and drawings-of the titanic American abstract expressionist ever shown under one roof (see ART). Through Feb. 15. At Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th: ten of Pollock's early, representational works, most of them painted in 1934. Through...
Abstract influence on the figure is found sensationally in a nude, raped, maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...
...magnitude to show in color (see following pages). Some are well positioned: Sidney Goodman, 27, the boy Hieronymus Bosch of modern horror; Grace Hartigan, 41, who models her environment in color; John Hultberg, 41, vanguard California figurativist; Paul Jenkins, 40, maker of iridescent mental landscapes; Theodores Stamos, 41, abstract expressionist. And there are others who seek their own place in the zodiac...
...plot has something to do with a young speculator who arrives in Manhattan from Texas, buys the first taxicab he climbs into, snaps up a swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies to Europe and hops right back with a grand collection of German expressionist art, finally shakes up the entire U.S. economy by promoting a more or less mythical company known as Universal Widget. Why? Why, because he is plumb crazy about a shapely security analyst, Lee Remick. Why else...