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...vociferous advance-guard abstractionists. Yet De Kooning himself makes jokes about the word "abstraction" and confesses that he is "working out of doubt." For the last couple of years he has been doubtfully highballing down an art highway almost as old as abstraction itself (which stretches back to Cro-Magnon times). He has been painting women that anyone can recognize as female...
...tack-one which took him straight over the horizon and out of most solid citizens' ken. He borrowed ideas from the whole range of art history, carving figures that looked like Sumerian fetishes, and drawing in every manner from the Cro-Magnon to that of severe 19th Century classicists such as Ingres. His subject matter became anything at all-dogs, women, roosters, bones, furniture, dots, musicians-violently twisted, hacked, smeared and rearranged to suit Picasso's moods...
...with rip-roaring violence; in Time and Western Man (1928) he sought to "heal and reinvigorate" the ailing body of Western civilization with bursts of high-voltage shock treatment. But now, aged 64, Lewis has decided that most of the Western species is as far beyond succor as Cro-Magnon Man, and he has fallen madly in love with "that wonderful country," the U.S.A...
...Magnon Innocence. Five blocks away, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a reassuring show of Picasso lithographs, which proved that 65-year-old Picasso can still draw...
...first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet and sentimental pair of nudes. In the end they emerged as a nightmare vision of two twisted and highly ambiguous beasts (see cuts for steps 1, 6 and 9). Frank Sinatra himself never...