Word: fautrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school. For instance, all portraits are combined in one small galery and geometric and cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude on a Red Background and Jean Fautrier's The Gentle Woman, which is cool, liquid, and soft as an oyster...
Wrote Critic Mario Monteverdi in utter exasperation* at the Fautrier prize: "It is fitting that Fautrier should have won . . . for his are the ugliest, most vulgar, and useless non-paintings in the entire show. Giving him a prize clears the way for a legitimate revolt which, if clamorous enough, might save the Biennale...
...France's Jean Fautrier, 62, who is represented in the show with no less than 130 drawings and paintings. A close friend of French Minister of Culture André Malraux, as well as adviser on Malraux's art books, Fautrier overcame his representational tendencies 30 years ago, is "freed from the limits of design" when he paints. Virtually indistinguishable from one another, Fautrier's paintings bear such titles as Bare Breasts, Landscape...
...Critic Monteverdi was not the only one to be exasperated; walking up to U.S. Abstractionist Franz Kline (himself a $1,600 prizewinner), Fautrier reportedly told him that his work "stinks." Kline's reply, so the story goes, was a realistic right to the jaw that dumped Fautrier on the seat of his pants...