Word: stankiewicz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Included in this group are the "fantastics," born between 1910 and 1930, who explore odd materials and resort to private mythologies, whether through the twisted polyurethane of Chamberlain, the plaster casts of Segal, the junk sculpture of Stankiewicz, or the soft objects of Claes Oldenburg. On the bottom three tiers, and on the ground floor and bottom levels, in stage center, are the minimalists, including Tony Smith (TIME cover, Oct. 13). It is Fry's opinion that the minimalists, who build industrially produced large-scale works, are trying to achieve a "tabula rasa, the clean slate upon which...
Pupils poured from his classes in New York and Provincetown, including Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, Richard Stankiewicz. But he openly confessed, "As an artist, I know that art cannot be taught. All you can do is try to bring out in the individual whatever you think can be brought out." But he was most emphatic that art be seen as the realm of endless possibilities, where one can do anything and express anything. Said he: "Art must not imitate physical life. Art must have a life of its own-a spiritual life...
However, this month they present an exhibit called "Departures and Distractions," which is illuminating in several ways. In it, the ladies have followed most of the current idioms, from abstract expressionism to hard-edge relief, from assemblages a la Stankiewicz to painting in debt to Jasper Jones. In the hands of the artists shown, these potentially vital forms have become empty and lifeless. If nothing else, this show should prove that using abstract means doesn't make a poor painter look any better. These relatively talented amateurs have failed; shouldn't this quiet those who have always claimed that...
JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. More contemporary sculpture, here limited to seven Americans: Peter Agostini, Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz and George Sugarman. Through...
Many recent sculptors-Chamberlain, Stankiewicz, César, for example-have plundered the scrap heap for its rusty riches. Their assemblages look back on Marcel Duchamps' "ready-mades," or store-bought hardware, and Picasso's "found objects." Paolozzi also once combined bits of cameras, clocks, toys and bombsights into figures that looked like archaic idols or, as he said, "the fetishes of a Congo witch doctor." Now his work sets up a more modern paradox between engineering and art, and his breakaway from traditional values has made him spiritual uncle (where Henry Moore is spiritual father) to younger...