Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enraptured by Piero della Francesca while on a scholarship in Italy in 1960, and has insisted ever since that paintings should have shallow, stagelike space, like Piero's. Says he: "I like to be stopped cold not more than two inches inside the picture plane. Even with Jackson Pollock, you go on forever and get lost." His own preference is for abstract figural arrangements with the "thumping, alive sense of skin on skin." After painting 25 variations of his wife in the bath, he embarked on a detached but erotic series of paintings that explored the life and strangled...
...KITAJ, 32 (he never uses his given names, Ronald Brooks), is a Yank, actually. Cleveland-born, Kitaj (rhymes with knee-high) is a brusque, opinionated intellectual who acknowledges the influence of the surrealists, and has "always been devoted to De Kooning, Clyfford Still and Pollock." Unlike them, he believes that painting should have subject matter. "The picture always takes over," says Kitaj, "but you can't help being moved by the great cultural issues peripheral to the picture." He carefully divides his time between reading and painting, produces barely ten canvases a year. In his earlier work the periphery...
Harry and Tom Pollock, Jim Tew, Paul Gunderson, and coxswain Ed Washburn make up the first four-oared boat from Harvard to enter the Olympics since 1936. The earlier crew lost to a German boat...
...Painting relates to both art and life," Rauschenberg once said. "I try to act in the gap between the two." For him, painting must neither seek the illusion of being something nor become the projection of the self onto the canvas, as it was for Abstract Expressionists Pollock and Kline. Nor is painting social protest to a man of always sunny disposition: "I like society and don't want to leave...
...paint as paint-tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...