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...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...
...Hayden Gallery exhibition of drawings by Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Line, and Guston is a pleasant exception to the rule. These five painters have been labeled Abstract Impressionists because they broke with the traditions of Cubism and Mondrian aesthetics by eliminating concrete forms and images from their work. Pollock, for example, is best known for paintings made by squirting paint out of tubes directly onto a canvas on the floor. For him, the act of releasing paint itself constitutes a valid artistic statement...
Abstract Impressionists have also been called Action Painters because they place so much emphasis on the brush and pen stroke itself. In fact, Jackson Pollock once explained his art by saying, "The source of my painting is the unconscious," and his works, some of which have been made with sticks and syringes. Indicate that he is more concerned with drips and squirts of paint than with the organization of his canvas and the control of his lines. The Action Painting trend peaked around 1950; afterwards artists returned to concrete images and forms. This exhibition seems to help explain...
Drawings composed of unspecified shapes, even if they are carefully conceived, run the risk of seeming flat and dull, not because they fail to give us something to recognize and latch onto, but because they lack a certain attention to organization. Many of Kline's and Pollock's patterns seem repetitive and senseless because they have no apparent structure, even though the artists might have brooded over their drawings for weeks. And the work of these five artists is most captivating when it reveals a consistent, internal structure. One can't help feeling that art, no matter how expressive...