Word: hultberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From this firmament of talent, TIME picked ten artists of brightening magnitude to show in color (see following pages). Some are well positioned: Sidney Goodman, 27, the boy Hieronymus Bosch of modern horror; Grace Hartigan, 41, who models her environment in color; John Hultberg, 41, vanguard California figurativist; Paul Jenkins, 40, maker of iridescent mental landscapes; Theodores Stamos, 41, abstract expressionist. And there are others who seek their own place in the zodiac...
...share of the credit for that goes to Martha Jackson, the most deceptively scatterbrained dealer in the business. In between shows of her soberer artists such as John Hultberg, Paul Jenkins and the Spaniard Tapies, she has turned her gallery over to "happenings" and "environments," once even allowed her entire backyard to be filled with tires in the name of art. She could well be called the bridge between the established abstractionists and the new wave that the Castelli Gallery and later the Green, Stone and Stable galleries have encouraged...
...John Hultberg...
...kind of bridge between reality and dreams, Hultberg exaggerates perspective. The eye no sooner lights upon some familiar surface-a deck, a dock, a piece of roof-than it is drawn through some sudden opening, whisked up a ladder or a plank, flipped into space. Occasionally a whole painting is made up of windows, each with a separate world behind it. The shadowy figures lurking here or there are merely spectators: ''They put the viewer into the picture...
...five or six years since Hultberg began getting attention and placing work in important collections and museums, his painting has changed only slowly. His colors-bottle greens, cobalt blues, neon reds-still flash out from this recess or that like glints on a prism. But color now interests Hultberg less than composition, and in composition he is moving more and more toward humanistic painting. "I want to put the human being in a setting," he says, "in a landscape, but equal to the landscape." Hultberg is his own frankest critic. He finds that his paintings are of a world more...