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...Leon Golub...
...showing Uncle Sam, abetted by imperialist lackeys from the Associated Press and the United Press, stamping on the "bleeding Cuban people." Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art picked the U.S. entries, which included 34 abstractions by Robert Motherwell, two figurative paintings by Richard Diebenkorn, a couple of Leon Golub monsters, engravings by Leonard Baskin, constructions by Reuben Nakian and Richard Stankiewicz...
...superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph Gottlieb. An executive vice president who insisted that all he wanted was a print of the port of New York has-and highly prizes-a fiery black and red abstraction by Jack Youngerman...
...Leon Golub, 37, paints men in pain. His views are frontal and direct: lumpish, lacerated heads with dull yellow catlike eyes. His technique-layer on layer of colored lacquer, chipped, gouged and pumiced-gives the effect of eroded sculpture come hauntingly to life. They resemble certain Romanesque statues Golub saw while on a trip to Italy, but he claims never to "look back" or dissect. "Other painters are tearing man apart, but not me. I'm giving him a monumental image. I want man to survive...
...ALVIN GOLUB...