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...most art experts, her Italian contemporaries pale beside her earlier purchases. Peggy does not agree. "People in 20 years will be saying the same things about the new people as they were about Pollock back then," she says. Pop? "This whaddayacallit, phooey," she says, but Jasper Johns...
...gone to a U.S. painter who is far from pop. He is Kenneth Noland, whose work, along with that of his stylistic comrade, the late Morris Louis, was presented in the official U.S. exhibit as an alternate direction to that taken by Prizewinner Robert Rauschenberg (TIME, Sept. 18) and Jasper Johns (TIME...
However, this month they present an exhibit called "Departures and Distractions," which is illuminating in several ways. In it, the ladies have followed most of the current idioms, from abstract expressionism to hard-edge relief, from assemblages a la Stankiewicz to painting in debt to Jasper Jones. In the hands of the artists shown, these potentially vital forms have become empty and lifeless. If nothing else, this show should prove that using abstract means doesn't make a poor painter look any better. These relatively talented amateurs have failed; shouldn't this quiet those who have always claimed that...
Second, among its welter of practitioners, two painters have emerged as the undisputed eye-catchers: Robert Rauschenberg, 38, (TIME, Sept.18), who made off with first honors last summer at the Venice Biennale, and Jasper Johns, 34, pop's most painterly painter (opposite...
...close friends, but miles apart in temperament. Extravert Rauschenberg is now touring Japan with the Merce Cunningham ballet, for which he whips up a spontaneous stage set a night out of the jetsam of commercial products. More reticent, Jasper Johns plays the position of a mandarin: his aim is to make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture...