Word: kootz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days before he died last week of a heart attack, Bavarian-born Hans Hofmann, 85, stopped by at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery to see his current exhibition, 21 large oils, all but two painted within the last year. A pretty, 13-year-old schoolgirl, feasting her eyes on the bright rectangles aswim in impastes of Christmas-color oils, turned to the great, grey, shambling man and asked timidly, "Aren't you Mr. Hofmann?" With a beam, he nodded, replied, "And of course you paint yourself." For him there was no higher activity and he meant...
HOSIASSON, SCHUMACHER, SERPAN-Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th. Three European painters work in a rich variety of oils. Philippe Hosiasson, Russian-born cousin of the late Boris Pasternak, carves wavy landscapes out of creamy colors. Germany's Emil Schumacher produces scarred and wounded figures from mixed media that resembles dried clay and hardened lava. Iaroslav Serpan, a Yugoslav teaching at the Sorbonne, swishes up a storm of spiny black lines in a sea of gentle blues and greens. Through...
...Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th. A Chinese expatriate in Paris, Zao Wou-ki makes a meeting place for yin and yang, feeds planes of pastoral stillness into moils of inner frenzy. Through April...
HANS HOFMANN-Kootz. 655 Madison Ave. at 60th. He has said he was nobody's student, but Hofmann was practically everybody's teacher. At 83, the dean of abstract expressionism still paints, and each year his shapes get gayer, his colors more delirious. Through March...
RAYMOND PARKER-Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th St. A thunderhead of hard-edged clouds in shocking colors, Parker's shapes-in-space seem waiting to collide, never quite make a satisfactory bump. Through...