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...paint as paint-tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...
...gradual shift of world art centers from Paris to New York is not new; only the angry French cultural double take is. The shift began in 1956, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art sent abroad a show that introduced Pollock, De Kooning, Kline and abstract expressionism to England and the Continent. European critics at once recognized that the postwar New York school had the innovative strength, technical skill and independent-minded vision to go its own way without regard for the school of Paris-which, since the cubism, surrealism and dadaism of the first quarter of the 20th...
...Vesper victory was obviously a crushing blow to Parker, Captain Harry Pollock and their crew, who had spent up to four years of constant effort in anticipation of this Olympic opportunity...
...University of Minnesota: baseball's college world series, for the third time, beating the University of Missouri 5-1 in the final game, on the four-hit pitching of Joe Pollock and the headlong base-running of Second Baseman Dewey Markus, who then signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs...
...final heat, the Crimson never saw another boat's wake. The Yale crew, after maintaining a blistering pace of 35 to 36 strokes per minute in the early part of the race, fell behind at the half way mark. Cornell made its traditional sprint at the end, but Harry Pollock's boat just responded by picking up its own pace to finish well ahead...