Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Welliver's kind of realism could have matured only in the past 25 years A.P.-After Pollock. His paintings are saturated with the ideas about surface and space that abstract paintings put into currency in America. They have less to do with locating a set of objects in the illusion of a void than with creating a continuous pelt of shapes that fills the surface from edge to edge, top to bottom. With 19th century landscapists like Bierstadt or Corot, one is softly inducted into the illusion. Welliver points out, 'You can really just enter into...
...weekly sister publication originated the technique, now widely imitated by general-interest dailies, of scrutinizing the box-office record of a film in its all-important opening days in order to forecast its ultimate success. But the price of that insider knowledge can be excessive coziness. Entertainment Reporter Dale Pollock of the Los Angeles Times says he was sternly reprimanded in a former job at Variety for picking up the tab for lunch with industry executives. He explains: "The paper said that being taken to lunch was part of my salary...
...that way, a victim of orthodox modernist thinking-which tended^ to suppose that his art had not "evolved" beyond its representational purposes, toward abstraction. In the late 1950s, when Avery was 70 and at the peak of his talent, his prices were about one-tenth of Pollock's. (They still are, but Pollock's now cost millions...
that tan!" "Look at that tone!" Fonda's critics took a different view. "She has a body like wood," one man said. "You don't want to stroke her, you want to sand her down." Dale Pollock, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, complained, "That scene is supposed to be the climax of the film. Instead, it's a commercial for Jane Fonda's Workout Book." If so, the commercial did its job. Work-out (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times...
DIED. Betty Parsons, 82, discerning New York City art dealer who championed a stellar stable of abstract expressionists-Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still-in the post-World War II years when others scorned their works; of a stroke; in Southold...