Word: hultberg
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...latest darling of modern art is a modest, muscular, 33-year-old painter from California named John Hultberg. He was almost unknown until two months ago, when he took the top ($2,000) prize at the Corcoran Gallery's biennial show of U.S. art in Washington. The Corcoran bought the prize-winning picture, and Manhattan's Whitney Museum picked up another. Last week a Hultberg exhibition at Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery drew warm notices, and at week's end Hultberg got another prize for his three entries in an international show of artists under...
...swift rise Hultberg can thank first a considerable talent, and second the fading of yesterday's fashion. That fashion was for "abstract-expressionist" pictures, which recoiled from perspective and recognizable three-dimensional shapes, instead relied purely on vast, flat swirls and puddlings of paint, paint, paint. Painter Hultberg, who once studied with two leaders of the school, Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers...
...pictures are semi-abstractions, but most look rather like landscapes. Hultberg borrows from De Chirico the trick of making deep, dark perspectives of converging lines. Instead of placing figures in his perspectives, Hultberg strews about a variety of three-dimensional symbols resembling portholes, ladders, wreckage, trap doors, sudden cliffs, wings and flying boxes...