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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spanish-born Joan Junyer (pronounced Zho-ahn Zhoon-yea) is an artist with a fresh eye who feels confined by frames and flat surfaces. For ten years he has tried to get a sense of volume into his paintings by rejecting the conventional canvas for molded shapes of wood and plaster. His paintings (TIME, July 9) sweep around curves, roll wavelike along walls. Last week Artist Junyer's latest assault on convention was on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...fountain that looked vaguely like some giant metallic orchid-8 ft. high, with flowing petals and a stippled yellow, blue and white enamel finish. There was a high spout for adults, and a lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them into his nonstylized...
...Junyer is a painter who paints no pictures, a sculptor who carves no stone. He molds abstract shapes of wood and plaster, paints them with wavering, rainbow strokes of cool color, ornaments them with bold patterns, simplified human figures and shadow-casting bumps and cutouts. Result: a new kind of fluid wall decoration which revives, in a modern idiom, the painted-sculpture art of the ancient Egyptians, Syrians and Greeks...
Spanish-born Jōan Junyer used to paint conventional pictures, showed them for ten years running at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International exhibitions. After Franco took over Spain, Junyer came to the U.S. and earned a new reputation as an innovator. Pictures, he decided, are too limited-because they have to be evenly lighted and looked at headon. So he turned to sculpture-paintings, which are made to fit odd corners as well as flat walls, can be seen from different angles, in changing lights, with an almost unlimited variety of effects. Each angle and light shows a different...