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...months ago, I selected the duplicate of Mark Tobey's untitled abstraction for my new kitchen linoleum...
...your reporting of the award to Mark Tobey of the 1961 Carnegie Prize for painting, you neglected to mention that just the week previously the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre had opened a magnificent retrospective show of Tobey's work, covering almost 300 paintings from...
...Abstractionist Tobey is the first American to have a one man show at the Louvre. Whistler's triumph in 1905 took place at the Ecole des Beaux Arts...
...prize for painting went to Seattle's Veteran Abstractionist Mark Tobey (see color). Tobey, now 71, first got hooked on what he calls "white writing" during a trip to China where he became fascinated by the age-old romance between calligraphy and painting. He began to see nature not as a cluster of shapes but as rhythm and vitality expressed in racing lines. At first glance Tobey's canvases sometimes seem like decorative screens, with nature hidden somewhere behind. Actually they are just the opposite: examined closely, they become a battleground of forces whose struggles extend into realms...
Lonely Question Mark. Even more prestigious than Tobey is the top sculptor, Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti of Paris. Giacometti once declared that he wanted his figures to be "immense." But in working on them, he is almost always driven to whittling them down to emaciation, as if he were looking for some elusive essence inside one layer of flesh after another. His figures seem still to be searching for that essence long after they leave his studio, eternal and lonely question marks...