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...caustic collages and assemblages from all manner of thrift-shop odds and ends. When they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art's "Art of Assemblage" in 1961, William Seitz, the show's organizer, was sufficiently impressed to rank Conner on a par with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Yet, while the latter two have gone on to Venicelebrity and $20,000 canvases, Conner, at 34, remains mainly an underground hero, known to the world at large only for his fine experimental films...
...people buy it because they honestly want to learn to understand it, some because it is fashionable-some because it is fun. "Art is one of the ways to find out what it's all about," maintains Collector Scull. "The art world is live ly now," says Painter Jasper Johns. "People sense this, and wish to be involved with something that's lively...
...sent 4,132 works of art. The U.S.'s lavish convocation of nearly 20 popartists' work, called "Environment U.S.A.," was selected by Brandeis University's William Seitz and bankrolled by the Smithsonian; it is easily the biggest crowd pleaser of the lot, although only one American, Jasper Johns, won a minor ($2,220) award. The U.S. exhibit, with its garish colors, ghoulish assemblages and grotesque figures, comes across as an eerie, lunar, angst-filled anti-advertisement for the Great Society. It also shows what dozens of artists representing other nations at Sao Paulo have begun to imitate...
...East Side brownstone, had to hire a theater to stretch out her 30-ft.-high banner painting for Expo 67. Ellsworth Kelly confesses that he never saw one of his large canvases all in one piece until it was put together in an exhibition. Some artists, such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who work on the same billboard scale as James Rosenquist, have bought their own buildings...
...liking for the cool quality of prints was reflected in the judges' awards. Although the exhibition abounds in brilliant colors, the jury awarded its top prizes to the predominantly monochromatic works of the U.S.'s Jasper Johns, 37, and Spain's Antoni Tapies, 44. Tapies' composition No. 39 shows a somberly dramatic doorway opening onto a mottled moonscape marked by tiny red crosses ("It signifies my whole life," explains Tapies). Johns's Pinion is a prime illustration of Krzisnik's "alienation," since it literally depersonalizes one of Johns's zanier collages, which includes...