Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nosedives at a canvas spread on the studio floor. His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color. "All I try to do is let out the monsters inside me," he says, "the monsters we all are." Shades of Jackson Pollock? No, it is Belgian-born Artist Pierre Alechinsky speaking, and at 37 he is already a latter-day saint of action painting...
...Crimson is stronger, more mature, more confident. They average 6 ft. 3 in. and 180 lb.-including Coxswain John Unkovic, who stands 5 ft. 6 in. and weighs 120 lb. after dinner. Four of them-Captain and No. 6 Oar Paul Gunderson, Stroke Geoff Picard, No. 3 Oar Tom Pollock, No. 2 Oar Bob Schwarz-have been in the same boat since their freshman year at Harvard...
Michael Fried's essay deserves the attention of the viewers. It yields a greatly increased sense of what is "going on" in Stella, Noland, and Olitski and how they follow preceding abstract paintings by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Morris Louis. The key ideas and the observations contained in Fried's essay reveal the paintings in the show as a fascinating world of color and form...
Nowadays pop art has made Rivers respectable. To even the most apocalyptic, often reluctant, critics, he appears as the logical, stable span between Pollock, Kline and De Kooning and the newcomers who actually attach real beer cans to their paintings. His 155-work exhibition that opens this week at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum,* proves that Rivers is exciting in his own right. Even the commonplace cliché of General George fording the Delaware looks good beside a giant representation of a Campbell soup can. The crucial difference is that Rivers, unlike the pop artists, does not leave...
...assemble pieces by color or line, put the whole thing together in jig time. Easier to win at than solitaire and less demanding than a novel, it was a relaxing remedy for rainy afternoons and hospital confinements. But that was before Springbok Editions sprung its pasteboard version of Jackson Pollock's "Convergence...