Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEARLY half a century ago the modern art of Paris-the work of Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi et al.-was introduced to the U.S. at a Manhattan exhibition famed ever since as the 1913 "Armory Show." This summer the U.S. has sent to Europe a show of American abstract expressionist paintings that the sponsors consider, at last, the counterpart of the 1913 show. The abstract expressionists have made their impact on the U.S. art world (some collectors are willing to pay up to $30.000 for a drip painting by Jackson Pollock) and have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors...
...accepted an invitation from Brandeis University last summer to write one of six jazz compositions for the annual Brandeis arts festival. Also represented: Composers Harold Shapero and Gunther Schuller, Jazzmen Charlie Mingus, Jimmy Giuffre and George Russell. Their efforts are now presented by Columbia on an album entitled Modern Jazz Concert. The selections range from Russell's blues-favored All About Rosie, "on a motif taken from an Alabama Negro children's song game," to Babbitt's lurching, jaggedly profiled twelve-tone piece...
...John Lewis Piano (Atlantic). The leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet takes some standards (Little Girl Blue, It Never Entered My Mind) and some of his own compositions (Harlequin, Colombine) and strips them to the clean, cool bone. The spare treatments have a fragile charm all their own, but when heard in bulk they speak in an emotional monotone ultimately as wearying as a series of landscapes executed in whites and greys...
Working its way through Europe this summer is one of the most explosive and controversial art shows in decades. Called "The New American Painting" and financed by the International Council at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition is the first long, mass look Europeans have had at the leaders of the abstract expressionist movement. Billed by its partisans as the first home-grown art movement to rate international recognition, "The New American Painting" is getting cheers from most younger painters, cries of outrage from many critics, nibbles from some collectors and a monumental amount of bafflement from...
...World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot...