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Concert starts calmly, but oldtimers remember September 1953 Hampton concert at Concertgebouw: one boy hysterical; hospital; dancing on stage; wild time. Manager said never again. Too shocking for home of great orchestra once conducted by Willem Mengelberg...
...bright young proconsuls of the advance guard, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, added to this pattern of approach a breathtaking fervency and single-mindedness. Following Clausewitz' formula for successful military attack, they concentrated all the forces they could muster on the smallest possible problem: to express what they happened to be feeling in the process of painting. The results were huge canvases excitedly smeared, spattered, daubed, dribbled and gobbed with color in the shape of freewheeling overall designs, as if the artists had been playing with paints and got carried away. They were not as formless and unconsidered...
Tricks & Skids. Willem de Kooning's Gotham News uses just about every trick in painting, except illusion, to create excitement. It is juicy à la Rubens, gaudy à la Delacroix, emphatic à la Vlaminck -and utterly ambiguous. Being too agitated for the purposes of either decoration or contemplation, De Kooning's canvas reaffirms the abstract-expressionist credo that the very effort of painting is what paintings should be about. The observer's glance is led to skid here and there in the calculated mess like brush strokes; looking at the picture is supposed to re-create...
...raising chemical isolated by Page and colleagues) makes a strip of rat uterus contract, and the ways in which serotonin and other body chemicals cancel each other's effects. Dr. James McCubbin is probing breakdowns in nerve impulses that throw blood-pressure control out of kilter. Famed Internist Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney when his native Netherlands was under Nazi occupation, has developed a $14 model in a gallon can. Dr. Page himself spends two or three days a week in the lab-last week he was testing the effects of new chemicals on blood pressure...
Uncharted Seas. Confronting the jury, as the members wheeled about the galleries, was an array of the styles that have turned contemporary painting into a seething, uncharted sea of rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's grotesque female portraits to the acrid brilliance of German painters like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining...