Word: guggenheims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unger said yesterday he will take next year off on a recently-awarded Guggenheim fellowship, to study contract law and "broader things connected...
...held a Sloan Foundation Fellowship from 1959 to 1963, and Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in 1966 and 1971. He has been a visiting professor both at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris and at the University of Paris, and a visiting scientist at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires in Saclay, France...
...form all the way; he tends to eschew the radical for the pleasing. Perhaps as a result of this tentative quality, he never developed a style of his own. Though his paintings can be grouped into "periods" and arranged in chronological sequence--as has been done at the Guggenheim show, which closed last week--these periods are not stages in a progression towards a unique artistic voice, but a series of disjointed and often imitative efforts to find such a mode of expression...
...STUDIES from "Newtonian Disks", which follow that painting in sequence down the ramp of the Guggenheim museum, blend almost imperceptibly into studies for "Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors." This painting is too large to be hung where it should chronologically be placed; one has to descend in suspense through Kupka's "pseudo-Expressionist," "pseudo-Mondrian" and "art deco" periods before finding it, at the bottom. "Fugue," painted in 1912, is indeed greater than anything else Kupka ever did. It represents a culmination of his nonprofessional interests--astronomy, music, and mysticism--as well as his artistic abilities: his skill with color...
...Kupka exhibit starts at the top of the Guggenheim and spirals down through time, following the turns of "modern art." Kupka imitates or reflects dominant influences of his time: Matisse, Delaunay, Gross, Mondrian, Kay Nelson. But in looking at the works as a retrospective of the major aesthetic revolutions of our time, Kupka's theoretical contribution to those revolutions should not be ignored. Nor should his artistic (well, not genius, but) talent: his sensuous lyricism, keen sensitivity, and his occasional inspiration. Kupka is a mirror worth looking...