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...accompanied by two new books on him. One text, by Artforum Editor John Coplans, is well-nigh impenetrable and reads as though creakily translated from German, though it is relieved by fine color plates (Abrams; $35). The other, the show's catalogue, is by Art Historian Eugene Goossen. It is what museum introductions should be but rarely are-warm and scholarly, steadily focused on Kelly's own experiences and their growth into form, and mercifully free from the imbricated jargon of formalist criticism...
Relief with Blue was, as Goossen points out, a predictive work. Its curves, both supple and spare, would become one of the marks of Kelly's style. The blue "door" in the middle - physically enclosed by the lip of white relief around it - would, in a different way, become another motif. Kelly's mature painting is very much a matter of cut and constriction. Shape burgeons across the canvas, brushing against its edges in such a way that within the bald format there is no dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force...
Since 1961, the art faculty at Hunter, including both full-and part-time teachers, has increased from 24 to 65. And in short order, Goossen's new teaching artists have made their mark in the outside world. Six out of 60 grants made by the National Council on the Arts last year to promising U.S. painters and sculptors went to Hunter teachers, a record for any U.S. art school. Half a dozen Hunter artists, including Sculptor Tony Smith (TIME, Feb. 10), were represented in the 1965 and 1966 Whitney Annuals for painting and sculpture. Recently, nine Hunter teachers...
Trained & Educated. The successes of the teaching staff have an electrifying effect on the students, who now feel that "this is the place to be." This vicarious foretaste of glory is fine by Goossen, who also believes that the way to educate the artists of tomorrow is to "place the student in an environment that al lows him to discover the seriousness of what he's doing, the same as you intern a doctor by putting him in a hospital where there's life and death around him." Hunter offers a variety of artistic disciplines, from traditional life...
...Goossen believes that art today is essentially in a transitional stage, that the last great style was the baroque, and that "contemporary art is merely the bricks and mortar with which art will build a new order when the time is right." He hopes that his students will be among the future builders. At least there will be no shortage of volunteers: in the past five years, enrollment in the graduate and undergraduate arts faculties at Hunter has jumped from...