Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattanites who turned out at the opening of a brand-new gallery last week, the big show was not the paintings (a 100-year retrospective from Manet and Monet to Picasso and Pollock), but the gallery itself-a gleaming interior of sculptured white plaster, marble and aluminum in which walls seemed to flow, stairs to float. Ceilings billowed to house controlled artificial light, and even the floor, covered with a luxurious wool carpeting, at one point suddenly lapped over on itself to become a bench...
...painters are bad or mediocre, of course . . . but the good ones do find shelter in numbers, are bought, employed, looked at, like the rest. Our society, it turns out, can use modern art. The president of a paint factory goes home . . . and stares relishingly at two paintings by Jackson Pollock . . . He feels at home with them; in fact he feels as if he were back at the paint factory...
Overturning the unanimous recommendation of the U.S. Tariff Commission, President Eisenhower last week rejected a plea by the New England fishing industry that he raise the tariff on groundfish fillets (i.e., boneless cuts stripped from pollock, cod, haddock, other bottom fish) and thus protect beleaguered U.S. ground fishermen against further imports (now 128 million Ibs. -annually, three times higher than in 1945), chiefly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength...
There is much more to this thick issue; the most notable are eight fine reproductions of drawings by Jackson Pollock. Taken even in sum, this issue's contribution don't seem to lack a viewpoint. The best of them, which might be called fantasies, seem to show how it feels, how funny it sometimes feels, to be human...
...even more dramatic example of widening U.S. impact is bearded, Scottish-born Alan Davie, 35. His discovery of Jackson Pollock in 1948 came as a revelation: "I was amazed to find that I wasn't alone." Davie's recent Manhattan show of his free-form, Druidical abstractions was a near sellout, with eight large paintings snapped up by museums and collectors. Davie's sales in six previous London shows: none...