Word: rothkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back at the Ranch. The West Side apartment of Textile Manufacturer Benjamin Heller strikes some as an art gallery with a bed. Huge paintings by Pollock, Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around...
...abstract because they cannot paint images. Esteban Vicente's portrait of his little daughter and the early sculptured heads by Sculptors Reuben Nakian and Louise Nevelson prove that these artists could have successfully stuck to representation had they chosen to. Other early works are not so reassuring. Mark Rothko's floating rectangles, controversial though they are, at least have an air of mystery, and many admirers have fallen under their spell. Had Rothko stuck to realism, as in his Two Women in a Window, his name might not even be known today...
...Bauhaus did--in terms of unity, it is hard to imagine how the museum's directors could ignore an opportunity to show, among other things, how Kandinsky's abstract expressionism has led to such things as Jackson Pollack's dribblings, how Moholy-Nagy's geometry has led to Mark Rothko's squares within squares, and, most important of all, how the Bauhaus attempt to unify the visual arts has led to widespread acceptance of what now is called "environmental architecture"--the attempt to enlarge the artist's realm beyond the single painting or building, to include the total physical environment...
Guggenheim Museum ever put on view at one time, some observers might wonder just how it got to be so famous. Since its original commitment was to nonobjective art, it is about 80% abstract, but even in its chosen field, its omissions-Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell. to mention only a few-are glaring. Nevertheless, the corkscrew museum's new director. Thomas Messer, last week put on a show from the collection that was a delight from the third spiral to the ground floor: an exhibition of the museum's ''old masters...
...been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns out hundreds of works in his lifetime. I try to pick the masterpieces...