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Hell-for-leather abstractionists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning have kept Manhattan art circles spinning all season. Their swirls, blobs and blizzards of paint, most of them too haphazard for analytical discussion, drew cheers and jeers, started scores of cocktail-party tiffs...
...Willem de Kooning is the sort of painter who gives most people a pain: superficially his pictures look like scribbles any kid could do. They are not really like that at all; the difference between De Kooning's work and mere doodling is enough to make him one of America's liveliest advance-guard artists. Despite his reputation and the fact he is all of 47, De Kooning has had only two one-man shows; the second opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. "I haven't felt ready for exhibitions," he explains...
...Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...
...Died. Willem Mengelberg, 79, who made the Concertgebouw Orchestra one of the world's best, once conducted the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (1921-30), was barred from conducting in The Netherlands for his welcome to the Nazis ("All great musicians were Germans"); in Zuort, Switzerland...
...ride to the royal palace and present credentials. The stocky, mustachioed, gold-laced envoy had hurried from his former post in New Delhi: "Though I come from farthest away," he crowed, "I wanted to be first, and I made it." Hard on his heels trailed The Netherlands' Count Willem van Rechteren Limpurg. Then followed the U.S.'s Stanton Griffis, riding to his audience with Franco in the old horse-drawn coach used by Minister Washington Irving more than a century...