Word: lindner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Robert Motherwell: "I have a deep respect for Pollock. After a slow start, like Van Gogh, he skyrocketed for a few years." Added Richard Lindner: "He broke through the traditions of the European painters. Don't forget the time-when he painted, America was very dependent on European tradition. In 50 years, Pollock will probably be more important than he is today-maybe not as a painter, but for liberation." Said Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who did not attend the opening: "Pollock broke...
...Lindner is a pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
These feminine images, however explicit, are not pornographic to him. "Woman is bursting her corsets," says Lindner, "like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting out." So he portrays women bulging explosively from their clothing, like Technicolor knackwurst. They tease rather than please...
...depicts a redhaired teeny-bopper in a crumpled miniskirt displaying maximum legginess. Her pose of independence is amplified by a Hula Hoop pseudo halo and a background of the Stars and Stripes. Says Lindner: "I am not a woman hater or a sadist. Women who would be angels wouldn't interest me. They'd be sexless...
...German Jew who fled the Nazis, Lindner was exposed to the earthy expressionism of Max Beckmann and George Grosz, and he admired the smooth machine-surfaces with which Fernand Leger packaged reality. In the U.S., he developed an appreciation for advertising imagery as an illustrator...