Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins: motorists keep windshield wipers locked away in the trunk when not in use. since spare parts are all but unobtainable. Reporting that many Russians have a thorough knowledge of American art and literature, he related a talk he had with one man about the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock. "He died in an auto accident," Paar had told the Russian. Looking furtively from side to side, the Russian said he knew that...
Died. Lionello Venturi, 76, Italy's goateed, golf-fancying master art critic, who wrote with equal enthusiasm of Jackson Pollock and Piero della Francesca, believed in endless creative evolution ("To paint Gothic in 1400 in Florence was wonderful, but those still painting Gothic in 1450 were poor painters"); of a heart attack; in Rome...
...European painting is studied and tired, missing the freshness of spring." says Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotremont. "American painting bursts forth from the ground like flowers, disengaged from tradition and the past. If a man moves by plane rather than oxcart, why must he prefer Rubens to Pollock...
...modern Polish painters that clearly showed that modern Poland has at least two artists-Jan Lebenstein, 31, whose inch-deep art brut figures are powerful and evocative; and Tadeusz Kantor, 46 (TIME, April 6, 1959), whose impassioned swirls and splashes resemble France's Mathieu and the late Jackson Pollock-as good as any modern currently troweling paint on canvas, plus another baker's dozen far more varied and versatile than most...
...kill myself for artists. The hell of it is I hate them," muttered Copper Heiress Peggy Guggenheim, 63, as she reminisced about the many hungry artists she has subsidized over the years. Last week, as angry as ever, Patroness Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either...