Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chair, then design the colors, and fill them in. Or he designed the color and then the chair. But one comes after the other. Moi, je fais tout d'un coup [I do everything at once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard to make a bold structural pattern that...
...Feel, Think, Imagine." One of the new breed of action painters. Soulages follows the trail blazed by Hans Hartung (TIME, April i), but carries to the extreme the view that "reality is not in appearance alone, but also in what men feel, think, imagine." For him, even the calligraphy of brush strokes is anathema, a romantic hangover from the days when the viewer, willy-nilly, could follow the painter's hand, guess and second-guess his intentions and hesitations. Soulages. with his plank-sized strokes, aims to hit the spectator with one knockout blow...
Although he calls many of his contemporaries who show their works "the frustrated Bob Hopes of 57th Street," Still rates high in abstract artists' circles. Art Critic Clement Greenberg calls him "the most original painter alive"; Manhattan's Modern Museum places him among the top four U.S. abstractionists...
...bought it on the spot (estimated price: $5,000 to $7,000). Still says he picked it for the Albright because "it speaks with vigor." As to what it speaks, whether of the West's towering spaces and lost canyons or of city spaces, with looming, black skyscrapers, Painter Still does...
...least to the point of letting 48 of his works be shown in Barcelona's Gaspar Gallery. Franco's government, which granted the works a temporary customs permit to enter, did nothing to muzzle the press. Result: a jampacked exhibition, ringing press tributes to Picasso as "the painter of our time...