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...fine scholar, a generous teacher," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a statement. "When I first met him in the early 1960s, he was encouraging graduate students and junior faculty members to view the Fogg as a place to pursue their interest in [for example] Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Anthony Caro, and Kenneth Noland--as well as in the Mannerists, in 20th-century photographers, and in Dutch and Flemish print makers. This wise eclectic spirit nurtured the Museum, and infused the Department, in a way that allowed individuals and the University to flourish together...
...knew that real originality is made, not born; that it doesn't appear in spasms and tics but rather in a long digestive process, modified by anxiety. And he was a ruminator: placid, sometimes, on the surface, but an artist of incalculably deep feeling. Along with Jackson Pollock, his polar opposite in every way, he was probably the most original American painter of the 20th century...
...tougher than me?" And the answer is, the bosses of the major film studios. Compared with them, Stallone and his fellow summer-movie heroes--those mean-eyed, pumped-up, epigram-expectoratin' cinema studs--are prissy little honor-roll students. The real tough guys are fellows named Semel and Pollock and Roth; their battlefield is the summer calendar; they show their guts by slotting their big pictures to open in just the right week in hopes of killing the competition. This is the art of war, New Hollywood-style...
...swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung or Alfred Manessier in the face of what Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning were doing...
...Serge Poliakoff (sometimes) and the still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...