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...committee refused the first charge of Dean Pollock but sustained the second. No teacher should be denied the legal protection accorded to all citizens under the Fifth Amendment, the committee opined, "but whereas the University has a civic duty to the free society of which it is an institutional part and whereas a member of the teaching profession in our society may be expected so to conduct himself that his activities meet the tests of responsible exercises of his rights of academic freedom, both in the classroom and elsewhere, the Committee finds that the second charge is sustained...
During the late '30s, Root slacked off his buying. But after World War II, he started picking up samples of the new abstract art. He was one of the earliest to buy Theodoros Stamos' dreamily delicate work, Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases, and Mark Tobey's cool, almost Oriental calligraphy...
...JACKSON POLLOCK, who once flirted with form in his abstract paintings, then rejected it for pure drippings from a paint can, now seems to be swinging slowly back to brush & palette art. In five of his 14 new canvases there are signs of brush work, and in four of them there is a bow to form: a writhing, half-kneeling woman, a grotesque head, a suggestion of an animal. The rest is mostly recognizable Pollock: rich blots and dribbles of free-running color...
...well as the most radical experimenters. Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks to Ming ceramics...
...Renny Drew, then, really a future Jackson Pollock? His results were certainly somewhat similar (see cut), and so was his technique. But last week Renny himself pointed the moral to his story: "Anybody...