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Multiculturalism and Buddhism inAmerica. Helen Tworkov, editor, Tricycle, TheBuddhist Review. Phillips Brooks House, ParlorRoom...
Moskowitz's roots lie in abstract expressionism: he studied with Adolf Gottlieb and married Jack Tworkov's daughter. His paintings clearly show that he feels the loss of the pristine Romantic tradition. He has an unaffected appetite for the sublime and its subjects: towers, cliffs, icebergs and heroes (even if we see only the backside of the discobolus, even though the thing in his hand looks more like a bowling ball than a discus). Just as clearly, he doubts if sublimity can be revived. His rendering of a Giacometti sculpture into a long, ghostly streak of thick white pigment...
DIED. Jack Tworkov, 82, revered member of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting; in Provincetown, Mass. An admirer of Cézanne, Tworkov worked with bold yet lyrical brushstrokes to build up fields of color, which he played against one another. Like many abstract expressionists, he found his subject in the act of painting. He once said, "My hope is to confront the picture without a ready technique or prepared attitude...
...bought a painting that her friend Pollock called simply Number 28, for $3,000 (it is now worth $3 million). She paid de Kooning $2,700 for his 1949 canvas Attic (now worth up to $1.5 million). She bought Motherwells and Klines, as well as gentle canvases by Jack Tworkov, a Polish immigrant who had switched from figurative painting to abstract expressionism influenced by de Kooning. She bought Calders and Giacomettis, a Henry Moore bronze and Cornell boxes. At first she hung her own works next to her new acquisitions; then she took them down. "I realized that I wasn...
Alfred Hitchcock, L.H.D., film director. Jack Tworkov, L.H.D., artist. The solidity of your forms and the fluidity of your lines reveal an identity that has successfully coordinated seeing and feeling...