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...years." The 200-odd aficionados who milled around the huge canvases at the opening rapidly began sorting out impressions. Jackson Pollock was the most important, they decided. Mark Rothko's shimmering panels of color were their favorites, followed by the works of Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most admired: "furious vitality," "unbiased liberty," "a renovating spirit." Cried Critic Eduardo Cirlot: "The most important show that Spain has seen in the last 25 years. There's no doubt that American artists are the vanguard of the world...
Compounded Enigmas. Just what it is and why it is important is as much a mystery to the broad-U.S. public as to puzzled Europeans. And not without reason. U.S. abstractionists discuss what they are doing in enigmas that would win kudos from a Zen master. Painter Franz Kline, asked what he was trying to express, replied: "When I was young, I was 19. Does that answer your question?" With few exceptions, critics do little better. Art News once described one of Mark Rothko's works as "haunted, like the shining skin of an opulent eggplant...
...breed: European dealers and collectors bent on buying U.S. moderns. In recent months London's venerable Arthur Tooth & Sons has bought works of Pollock, Clyfford Still, Guston and Baziotes. Rome's Tartaruga gallery picked up paintings by James Brooks, Ad Reinhardt, Donati, Marca-Relli, Rothko and Franz Kline. Still others have been shipped to Paris...
...translated last week by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is to develop "pharmacological substances that normalize higher nervous activity and heighten human capacity for work." In plain English, the Russians are looking for drugs like the "psychic energizers" foreseen by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline (TIME, Feb. 24), that will make them supermen...
...Tired. In Three Rivers, Mich., Thomas Kline, 11, smashed into a moving automobile with his bicycle, later confessed to police: "I fell asleep at the handlebars...