Word: willems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contemporary painters, conservative as well as the most radical experimenters. Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks to Ming...
...love it. Connoisseurs croon over the "technical mastery" of a Jackson Pollock (who dribbles his colors from pails of paint). They borrow such Hans Hofmann phrases as "push and pull on the picture surface" and "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense" to praise a Hofmann canvas. When Abstractionist Willem de Kooning admits that he is "still working out of doubt," they can hardly bring themselves to believe...
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...