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...movement grows apace; fully a third of Manhattan's art shows reflects it, and more & more art lovers claim to love it. Connoisseurs croon over the "technical mastery" of a Jackson Pollock (who dribbles his colors from pails of paint). They borrow such Hans Hofmann phrases as "push and pull on the picture surface" and "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense" to praise a Hofmann canvas. When Abstractionist Willem de Kooning admits that he is "still working out of doubt," they can hardly bring themselves to believe...
More & more modern painters and critics agree with Hofmann, revere him as the dean of a fast-growing school of U.S. abstractionists. Such leading lights of the school as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell snub nature, keep their eyes on the canvas and paint nothings like fury...
...West Berlin, art lovers were getting their first postwar look at a show of representative U.S. art. Included in the exhibition: 130 paintings and prints of 97 artists, from a Gilbert Stuart George Washington to a nonobjective dribbling by Jackson Pollock...
...most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...
Since then he has become the most extraordinary Yank Oxford has ever had -a sort of one-man Anglo-American alliance, whose interests have flitted back & forth across the Atlantic like the Holmes-Pollock letters themselves. His Essays in Jurisprudence and the Common Law is a major work in its field; and no barrister, solicitor or judge dares to miss his notes and comments in the Review. He became the second American to be made a King's Counsel,* one of the few ever to be knighted, the first to head Oxford's faculty...