Word: abstractionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spun as a child in the orphanages to which he was periodically committed because both his parents (now dead) were Faulknerian alcoholics. "Southerners," says he, "can be terribly hung up on fantasies." Schooled in painting at the Chicago Art Institute, Beal builds his compositions as carefully as any Abstractionist-and the sofa or chair in his pictures is as important as the figures. He lives five months of the year at a farm on Black Lake in the St. Lawrence River valley. He poses his sculptress wife or a model nude on soft, contoured upholstery because they are more comfortable...
...Greenwich .Village flat. Jimmy (Dustin Hoffman) stumbles through episodes from his past, present and fantasy lives. Several of the scenes, and Hoffman's part itself, recall his film role as a social dropout in The Graduate. Though the audience never sees him painting, Jimmy is an abstractionist and a dud at it. He is a glutton for humiliation. As "the only abstract painter in the Village who isn't getting laid," he keeps steady dates with a prostitute (Rose Gregorio) who can't refrain from telling him that her other clients are more sat -isfactory...
Nudes also interest Abstractionist Jules Olitski but mainly as an excuse to keep his draftsmanship in shape. Ever so often, a nude model poses for him while he, Critic Clement Greenberg and a couple of friends sketch from life. When Olitski settles down to serious painting, he turns out tinted canvases whose miragelike effects derive from the absence, indeed the positive negation, of the penciled line in any shape or form (see opposite...
...this device to magnify the fact that the viewer is being confronted with another human being," explains Leslie. A slight, loquacious, onetime physical-culture enthusiast from The Bronx, he abandoned a successful career as an abstractionist in 1960 because "modern art had, in a sense, killed figure painting. Painting the figure had become the most challenging subject an artist could undertake...
Locking Form and Content. "Whatever interest I have in people," says Stella, "I have in daily contact with them. I don't want them walking around in my paintings." The son of a Massachusetts doctor, Stella studied at Andover's Phillips Academy under Abstractionist Painter Patrick Morgan, was drawing geometric blocks of color while other students were still sketching nudes and horses. Upon graduation from Princeton in 1958 with an A.B. in history, he moved to Manhattan...