Word: abstractionist
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What is remarkable about Louis' canvases is their simplicity. They are devoid of any recognizable form; color is forced to carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
...pedestal in front of the Smithsonian Institution's new Museum of History and Technology last week went an 8-ft.-high, stainless-steel piece of abstract sculpture designed by New York's José de Rivera, 62, and executed with the aid of fellow New York Abstractionist Roy Gussow, 48. In terms of institutional oneupmanship, the work gives the Smithsonian the distinction of placing the first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will be installed in midsummer, while...
...First prize: Jules Olitski. 44, for his lightly brushed, veil-like Pink Alert. >Second prize: Paul Jenkins, 44, for a cloudlike abstraction, Astral Signal. > Third prize: John McLaughlin, 68, California abstractionist, for No. 14. >Fourth prize: Kenneth Noland, 42, for a hard-edged, blue-banded Pause...
...evanescent brush strokes of the glades near his Cos Cob, Conn., farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to Mondrianesque simplicity yet they stand at symphonic distance from the Dutch abstractionist's boogie-woogie colors. Twachtman's task was to portray tranquillity in nature almost at her vanishing point...
...moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business in 1959, Zóbel looked about Spain for a place to lodge his collection, which included, aside from his works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy to find someone ready to rent the hanging houses already undergoing exterior repairs...