Word: paring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Calder's sculpture won in 1952). This year, despite a powerful push behind the U.S.'s pop-eyed Roy Lichtenstein, whose work has evolved from hyperintense comic-book panels, the grand international prize in painting went to a relatively unknown kinetic artist from Argentina, Julio Le Pare...
Only in the painting category did the seven-member international jury, representing six European nations, give the top nod to something beyond the pale look of art already seen. Argentina's Le Pare, 37, won the $3,225 grand international prize for his motorized op-skip-and-jump works, which bobble and bounce ping-pong balls behind eye-boggling Plexiglas screens. A nonplused, partisan pop dealer could only remark that Le Fare's art reminded him of "F.A.O. Schwarz on the 23rd of December." Le Pare was just as much amazed when he heard of his win, while...
Absurdity Is Fact. "Almost all present movements are anecdotal," says Le Pare. "The real interest of a painting is its visual presence, not the fact that a naked woman has rolled on it." "Presence" in his works is felt by pressing buttons. Motors whir, lights whirl, and metal mirrors wiggle back and forth fun-house style. By eliminating the human figure, and even human scale, Le Pare runs opposite to pop or any art style. He strikes out for a world where science and art meet, where absurdity is nonetheless fact, where reality, however abstract in appearance, is still reality...
...picking Le Pare, the jury fulfilled a need for art to outpace popular appreciation. Pop itself, restricted to the sophisticated scavenger's delight, or the satirist's mocking image, has grown familiar and static. Op and kinetic art, like that of Le Fare's, are less human because they are less dependent on whim and whimsy. In the ephemeral flow of contemporary styles, this art chitters and clatters on ahead like a mechanical rabbit with transistorized circuits...
Parsimony & Patriotism. President Johnson's economists still hope for a second-quarter slowdown, and they have several factors working for them. Defense spending should climb by no more than $1.5 billion in the second quarter, and by $300 million each in the third and fourth. Businessmen may well pare their capital investment because of labor shortages and delays in deliveries, not to mention Johnson's appeals that equate parsimony with patriotism. As for consumers, the higher payroll withholding taxes beginning next week will cut their disposable income by $150 million a month.* And the speed...