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They did not "belong" in New York, with the splashy gesture and the stuffed angora goat; and except for the work of one or two painters like Kelly's friend Jack Youngerman, there is not much context for them even today. Since then, orthodoxies have spawned and died in shoals; but though Kelly's work anticipated by years many of their salient features (the minimal look, the use of chance in design, the shaped canvas, the horizontal-stripe picture), he has never been part of a "movement." At 50, painting and sculpting on his Hudson Valley farm, Kelly...
...December exhibition is "Campbell Soup Cans" by Andy Warhol. A set of 10 original silkscreens. The gallery deals in original, contemporary graphics of such artists as Lichtenstein, Oldenberg Johns, Kelly, Krushenick, Stella, Gottlieb, Rauschenberg, Vasarely, Trova and Youngerman among others...
...clear day in 1956, Jack Youngerman, a Kentucky-born painter, then 30, returned to the U.S. after nine years in Paris. As his ship entered New York Harbor, he was struck by the bright sun glinting on the water and the skyline. "It reminded me of the Middle East," he recalls. "I had made several trips there while I was in Europe. Its fascination for me had something to do with clarity and voluptuousness, a preoccupation with perfumes and running water, a hashish atmosphere instead of the heavy barrooms-and-whis-ky Rubens atmosphere of Europe. Now I was struck...
Twelve years have passed, and though Youngerman has undoubtedly seen as much Manhattan smog as blinding sunlight in that time, he has progressed steadily toward realizing his Middle East-inspired ideals of clarity and voluptuousness in paint. The measure of his success may be taken from the 45 ink-and-acrylic paintings that go on view at Washington's Phillips gallery this week (see color opposite). His forms are abstract; but as the artist points out, the Arab also gilds his mosques and minarets with nonrepresentational decoration. Over the years, Youngerman has consistently enlarged, unloosed and simplified...
...increase the tension of his flaring abstract forms, Youngerman recently abandoned historically approved vertical or horizontal canvases, began experimenting with diamond shapes. He finds that they have a symmetry of their own, and also create "relationships between the image and limit of the canvas in a satisfying way." Nonetheless, unlike other painters working with unconventionally shaped canvases, Youngerman still believes that "the shape is secondary to the image on the canvas. Some people think that abstract painting is dead. I think it's hardly been explored...