Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of delta. The leading painters follow a dozen different channels, and each naturally insists that his particular channel is the main one. Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...
...European exhibition was touring Germany, after opening in Copenhagen; it will go on to London and Paris. The Asian edition was touring Japan, after opening in Seoul; it will go on to Manila and Wellington, N.Z. Both shows consist of varied works of four Pacific Northwest painters (Mark Tobey...
Fair indexes of the quality of the paintings are two canvases from the European exhibit-Tobey's placid, cotton-soft Fountains of Europe and Callahan's turbulent, semi-semi-objective Fiery Night (see color page). The sculpture is no less recherche. Not untypical are Lipton's exotic Night Bloom, with its nickel-silver-on-steel petals closing with tropical luxuriance, and Hare's abstract bronze. Bush of Elephants, with its distorted suggestion of tusks and elephants' ears...
Such works are clearly not aimed at a mass audience, though Tobey's delicate, calligraphic style and the general Orientalism and mysticism of the Northwest painters were thought likely to be received sympathetically in the Far East. Aimed at letting the elite of Europe and Asia know the kind of art being produced in the U.S., the shows fortunately are accompanied by curators (Callahan is with the European exhibition) who can make explanations to at least a certain number of puzzled art-lovers...
Leader of the calligraphists (a style that includes U.S. Painter Mark Tobey's famed "white writing" and the late Jackson Pollock's lassolike drip whirls) is German-born, French-naturalized Hans Hartung. Now considered a Frenchman by the French, who last November bought out his first one-man show in nine years at prices ranging from $4,000 to $6,000, and a German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris...