Word: expressionistic
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Thanks for printing the article [Feb. 23] on the man who is probably America's greatest living artist-Thomas Hart Benton. Let others relegate him to the cellars; time will vindicate him. Eventually the world will gag on the "hysterical subjectivism" of the abstract expressionist paintslingers...
...TIME, Dec. 15). To see what the shouting is about, Manhattanites last week were flocking to a Tàpies exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery. A few of those who came to praise remained to scoff, and vice versa, for Tàpies does not fit the abstract-expressionist fashion. Though fiercely independent, his art is more cool than hot, more gloomy than exuberant and more calm than wild...
...Walter Plate, 33, for Hot House, a big, lush bouquet of thick colors, which thus became the Corcoran's latest acquisition. An ex-marine who studied painting in Paris under the G.I. bill, Plate thinks of himself as "a strictly American painter," by which he means an abstract expressionist. The $1,500 second prize went, oddly enough, to a bouncy figure painting: Jack Levine's lighthearted Girls from Fleugel Street...
...years since his death, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock has become the nation's most admired art export. Last week Pollock's passionate, familiar dribblings of paint were on view in a London gallery. Judging by the record attendance as well as the reviews, Jack the Dripper had taken England in hand...
...political and social realms, man was reduced to a "working power," and rediscovered as the self in "anxiety, guilt, and despair," Tillich said. One outgrowth of this rediscovery was expressionist art, which "showed the world in its demonic character...