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Frozen Assets. In Akron, Mark Pollock, 9, and brother David, 4, sold out their entire stock in three torrid days, charging heat-parched neighbors up to 4? each for 180 snowballs, of various flavors, which they stored last winter in the family freezer...
...Talk of the town: a lighthearted deviation from orthodoxy by one of the founders of abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell, who is showing 32 line drawings of a nude model. ¶ East Hampton, Long Island's hard-driving avant-garde rival to Provincetown ever since the late Jackson Pollock moved there ten years ago, last week made a bid for more recognition with the opening of the artist-organized Signa Gallery, hurriedly converted from the former Maidstone Market on Main Street in time to catch the summer rush. With a six-artist show that included half a dozen space-whirling...
...that since the end of World War II he no longer dominates the whole canvas of modern art. He believes a work should be constructed, is distressed by the work of many young abstract expressionists, once grabbed an ink-stained blotter, shoved it at a visitor and snapped, "Jackson Pollock." But Picasso's latest work shows that he has lost none of his amazing powers of draftsmanship nor his virtuoso ability to improvise on a theme until it is obedient to his will. With age, Picasso becomes more impatient. His own limitations-an insensibility to the sensual qualities...
...desire to be as free of preconceived ideas as possible has allowed Gerassi to paint in a number of different styles. There are very abstract red blotches on green backgrounds that have an affinity with Pollock and the Rorschach tests, as well as recognizable still lifes and landscapes. In this sense, Gerassi reminds us of his compatriot Picasso although the fluent shifts in style by Picasso are motivated by a more intellectual problem-solving mentality...
...Kitchen. This picture would make its point perfectly without the nude on the far left which adds tooo sharp a sense of ugliness to the composition. The background is painted masterfully. Christie is also at home in a more abstract vein. His Carnival, in the manner of Jackson Pollock, is spattered with gaiety and cleverness...