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...finally, three years (1937-40) under the great emigre teacher Hans Hermann, who knew the fabled phoenixes of Europe (Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian) and could transmit their ideas to his students. As a disciplined draftsman, she was nearly the equal of De Kooning and better than Rothko or Still. Her perspective on the culture of modernism was more intellectual than Pollock's. So their matching was not that of a passive muse to a moody genius, but of one demanding eye to another that was more voracious and (at first) less sophisticated. Krasner had to carry two loads of self...
Other painters, however, had no illusions about his merits. Mark Rothko treated him as a master-appropriately, since Rothko's glowing, blur-edged rectangles, now so prized as icons of American romanticism, were largely derived from Avery's landscapes. Avery's influence on American abstract painting in the '50s and '60s, not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition, was much greater than has usually been supposed. His way of rilling a canvas with broad fields of color "tuned" by dispersed accumulations of detail (a cluster of rocks...
DIED. Betty Parsons, 82, discerning New York City art dealer who championed a stellar stable of abstract expressionists-Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still-in the post-World War II years when others scorned their works; of a stroke; in Southold...
...soaked in allegory-the moon representing Christ, the ships serving as emblems of the voyage of life, and so on-but the recent revival of Friedrich's reputation has more to do with his ancestral relationship to more modern artists: to Edvard Munch, in particular, and Mark Rothko, whose rectangular "landscape" forms and transcendentalist pessimism now seem to preserve, with striking intensity, the romantic desire for that "original view of the infinite...
...animal, but the power of its forms." Nevelson was drawn to what was mythic and magical in sculpture just as a yearning for the primitive, the instinctively efficacious, was diffused throughout the American avant-garde in the 1940s. It was the root of Jackson Pollock's and Mark Rothko's early work and became an essential part of abstract expressionism in general, as it was of dance through the influence of Martha Graham...