Word: expressionistic
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...Institute of Contemporary Art, which twelve years ago brought Austria's most famous expressionist painter, Oskar Kokoschka, to American museums, is now doing the same for his contemporary, Egon Schiele. Hopefully, this will do as much for Schiele as the previous exhibit did of Kokoschka, for undoubtedly Schiele deserves the international fame he has never received...
...going their own ways. The direction of any tune might change from bar to bar, depending on which musicians happened to have "the dominant ear at that moment." The drummer repeatedly shifted his rhythm, forcing concessions from the other players. At best, the result evoked an abstract expressionist painting whose dots, slashes and blobs are miraculously knitted into a pattern...
...three, Helen Frankenthaler, 31, daughter of a judge, product of Bennington College, wife of First Generation Abstract-Expressionist Robert Motherwell, is in some ways the most daring in her work. "I often start with a canvas on the floor," she once said, "then work on it on the wall, changing back and forth, working at it from different sides." She usually begins with no particular idea in mind: "Let's say I start with some arbitrary color, or I simply start." Gradually, the picture builds-"an amorphous inner-world perspective that lies flat on canvas and yet flies...
...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...
...some years Franz Kline has been turning out slashing black-and-white calligraphs bigger than a man. Most critics and the bearded young espresso-sippers of Greenwich Village place him on the top shelf of the abstract-expressionist hierarchy. Last Monday Kline's first show in two years opened at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery. Eager buyers were beating at the gallery doors as early as 8:30 a.m., swarmed in to inspect his new abstractions, including some (uncharacteristically for Kline) in flamboyant color. Long before the official opening at 4 p.m. buyers had snapped...