Word: nonabstract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life as he is in his art, Cornell has kept himself and his work so aloof from the world for so long that he has become more a subject for intellectual quarterlies than for public display. But a lately revived interest in surrealism and the reappearance of nonabstract art are drawing attention back to him. Lawrence Alloway, former curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, originally picked him as one of four artists to represent the U.S. at this year's Venice Biennale. California's forward-looking Pasadena Art Museum plans a survey of his work...
...both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...
...taste and a purpose: to be a discerning gatherer of American representational art. In November it will exhibit 40-odd of its 292 paintings at Manhattan's Hirschl and Adler Galleries. The show, to be called "Montclair in Manhattan," should be as good a survey of nonabstract American art as New Yorkers will see all season...
Ohio-which gave all the prizes in a major art competition to representational, nonabstract works; see ART, The Personal Touch...