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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooks's transition from muralist to ab stractionist was no abrupt abandonment of figure for figment. He spent three years as a U.S. Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important...
...Laundry Bags. The most striking use of canvas in the entire show is not in a painting at all. Second-prize winner of $1,500 is an enormous construction of steel rods, copper wire and remnants of tarpaulin titled Untitled (57) by Lee Bontecou, 32. Combining symbolic materials on one hand and symbolic shapes on the other, Untitled (57) might well express the history of flight: the canvas wings and tenuous struts of Kitty Hawk are molded into the soaring pinions and howling jet nacelles of Idlewild. Bontecou, who looks as if she might have just stepped down from...
Johnson claims to have come upon this sort of figure painting about 13 years ago after dedicating a dozen years to an all-consuming religious activity that he refuses to talk about other than to say it "developed within me an understanding of the good and bad in people." He says that his paintings show how he feels about humanity. "No matter how startling they may be to people, there is always something pretty about them. I paint the way I do because I am not fearful of breaking any art rules. I have always wanted to paint as great...
Where did he get that hat? Not a fetish at all, according to Johnson; it belongs to his wife and he likes to paint it, with a change of flowers from time to time. "I get sheer pleasure out of painting that hat," he says. In any case, the device of painting hatted nudes seems to be uniquely Johnson's. Even the supremely nonchalant grisette caught picnicking in the buff with a brace of fully clad gentlemen in Manet's Le Déjeuner sur I'Herbe had the delicacy to remove her picture hat before sitting...
...consideration for local political sensitivities. But in Córdoba, Argentina, two weeks ago, when Kaiser reluctantly called a ten-day shutdown of its auto assembly lines in order to work off a prohibitively large backlog of unsold cars, hundreds of workers seized 50 supervisors, locked them in a paint shop, and held them hostage until local Kaiser Boss James McCloud agreed to keep the plant in operation...