Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Jackson Pollock and the first abstract expressionists began enlarging their canvases back in the late 1940s, American paintings have been getting bigger and bigger. To show the lengths-and heights-that artists are going to nowadays, Manhattan's Jewish Museum this week put on display 23 mural-size paintings, with a total area of 2,883 sq. ft. The smallest, James Bishop's Story, is a mere 61 ft. sq. The largest, Al Held's Greek Garden, is a breathtaking panorama of cabalistic circles, squares and triangles that measures 12 ft. high...
...answer, Andover is staging an extra-special teaching exhibit, consisting of 395 items from 174 donors. The show is a glorious potpourri ranging from ancient Iranian pots to pop art, and includes a sample of artists from Zurbarán and Veronese to Picasso and Pollock. What the items have in common is their owners: they are all Andover graduates. Last week the collectors collected themselves together at Andover to congratulate Hayes...
Several of Meadows' newest purchases-including a Cézanne, a Renoir and a Bonnard-are intended for his personal collection in Dallas. There they will help to fill the gaps left on the walls by the suspect paintings, now being examined in Paris. A $150,000 Jackson Pollock will go to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. But the lion's share, ten paintings bought from Wildenstein & Co.-including four Goyas, three Murillos, a Zurbarán, a Juan de Sedilla and a José Leonardo-will go directly to S.M.U., to become part of a collection...
...Pollock's fellow artists, however, still view his work with admiration. Over 400 of them turned up to survey the 172 paintings and drawings assembled by Curator William S. Lieberman with the cooperation of Pollock's widow, Painter Lee Krasner. At the party before the openings, both old friends and those who had never met Pollock were equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues...
Said Robert Motherwell: "I have a deep respect for Pollock. After a slow start, like Van Gogh, he skyrocketed for a few years." Added Richard Lindner: "He broke through the traditions of the European painters. Don't forget the time-when he painted, America was very dependent on European tradition. In 50 years, Pollock will probably be more important than he is today-maybe not as a painter, but for liberation." Said Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who did not attend the opening: "Pollock broke...