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...women present at the meeting with Pusey were Jane Pollock, who re-ceived her doctorate from Harvard this year and is president of NOW, Nancy Vaillant '55, vice president of NOW, and Ann Thornton '69, president of the Harvard Women's Law Student Association...
...Pollock (1967), Kline (1968) and De Kooning (1969) all had large-scale retrospectives, tacitly appointing them to the status of modern old masters...
...GROUP of painters who succeeded Pollock renounced the dramatic mannerisms of the action painters, flattering the canvas further. No longer do you see the artist's hand. Lacking the tensions imposed by a portrayal of the artist's emotions on the canvas, these colorists remove the reference of the moment the painting was done. The work emerges with a new sense of timelessness...
...action painters began revolutionary work in the late '40's, reveling in the thick rich substance of paint itself. Pouring brown and grey paint. Pollock splashes a mood of autumn over the surface of the canvas. The paint holds the emotional energy of his action. Despite the element of chance inherent in Pollock's method of dripping paint, his gestures compose a completely personal style...
Concentrating on sweeping brush strokes, Willem de Kooning also surrenders his style to the specific manner of applying paint to canvas. Pollock, de Kooning and Hans Hoffman evoke feeling purely through the motion of paint, creating some of the most beautiful works in the exhibition. The immediate texture of paint brings action to the surface of the canvas, while space is suggested by particularly dense areas...