Word: expressionistic
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Thousands may disagree, but hundreds of art lovers argue that Manhattan, not Paris, is the new queen city of contemporary painting. The "New York School" of abstract expressionist art, sparked by such painters as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, has long been characterized by big, wild, inchoate canvases meant to represent only moods. Now that seems to be changing; leaders and followers alike are beginning to knead chunks of the physical world into their abstractions...
Surveying the Manhattan scene last week, however, Critic Devree hopefully concluded that "the more extreme movement in abstraction has entered upon a period of revaluation. In much of the nonobjective or expressionist abstract work clear elements of figuration and suggestion of landscape inspiration appear increasingly in the paintings. If this tendency continues, the gap that has widened for the better part of a century between the artist and the people who look at pictures may shortly pose less of a problem...
Levine went right on wagging and jabbing his brush at social ills. Meanwhile, he made himself a master of expressionist techniques, mingling hot and cold colors as delightfully as Kokoschka, and squeezing and stretching figures as boldly as Soutine. Last year he began work on a huge canvas of a gangster funeral, which was frankly meant to spotlight political corruption of the big cities. Among the mourners he put "two widows, one very, very shapely," and "the chief of police, come to pay his last respects-a face at once porcine and acute...
Visitors to last week's show got a good idea of Goya's enormous scope and variety. Though his works always had an underpinning of fiercely honest realism, they ranged from elegant portraiture, through caricature, to expressionist outpourings of violent emotion and surrealist fantasies. Goya's Majo is a mysterious dandy painted in a style of courtly elegance. His expressionist St. Peter Repentant, roughly and swiftly constructed of broad brushstrokes, is a rocklike old man in an agony of remorse after thrice betraying Christ. In his besieged City on a Rock, the master turns surrealist and dreamlike...
...Nervously waiting for the show's opening this week. Artist Lloyd had no idea what kind of artist he should call himself -expressionist? abstractionist? or what? Frank Perls, owner of the Beverly Hills gallery where Lloyd's work will be shown, has it all figured out. "Just as Rousseau was a primitive impressionist." he announced, "Lloyd is a primitive abstractionist, completely natural and undisturbed by the art of the past...