Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolen Jackson Pollock painting, owned by Reginald R. Isaacs. Norton Professor of Regional Planning, was recovered Tuesday by Cambridge city and Massachusetts state police...
Although Isaacs would not disclose the value of the painting, he said at the time of the theft that it was worth more than a Pollock owned by the Fogg Art Museum, which he said is valued at more than...
Isaacs, a personal friend of Pollock, bought the recovered painting from the painter...
...handle his fantasy's archvillains, Critics Rosenberg, Greenberg and Steinberg. Wolfe is naive about critical power. The idea that Jackson Pollock was Clement Greenberg's ideological puppet in the '40s and '50s is sim ply not true: Greenberg did Pollock a great service by writing about his work intelligently and with passion, but he did not "tell" Pollock how to paint. (That dubious privilege would be reserved for weaker artists in the '60s, who wanted to attach themselves to Greenberg's by then mythical aura as a trend spotter.) In any case, Wolfe...
...Claude Monet, their leader, could become a bore is (happily) not yet. Apart from the delectability of his work, it becomes increasingly clear that Monet, whose painting life began in the 1860s and spanned almost 70 years, was as fundamental to 20th century art as Cézanne. Bonnard, Pollock and Rothko, not to mention every color-field painter who came out of an art school, lie cradled in Monet's woven strands of pure color. Consequently the Art Institute of Chicago's Monet retrospective of more than 120 paintings, which opened last week, is an event...