Word: abstractionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen this year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years...
Landscape as Cop-Out. These paintings, central to the so-called West Coast look, were the figurative works of a man who had once been an abstract painter and would become one again; purist criticism gave them short shrift. Landscape was regarded as the abstractionist's copout. Diebenkorn's work was described as abstract expressionism (the New York style par excellence) diluted for West Coast palates. If not unserious, at least it was not major. "It was always a putdown for me in the '50s," recalls Diebenkorn, 55, a big, reticent man with a no-nonsense bearing...
...mechanic out of my mind because I didn't like the smell of oil." The smell of linseed oil was another matter; he spent five years studying art at the National Academy of Design in New York, did odd jobs as a carpenter and studied with the pioneer abstractionist Hans Hofmann. "I really didn't understand abstract painting," he recalls. "It took a long time to penetrate-so I have a sympathy for people who don't like...
...school he met his future wife, an American student named Susan Weil. They went back together to the U.S. in the fall of 1948. Rauschenberg had read a TIME article about the pioneer abstractionist Josef Albers, the veteran of the Bauhaus who was teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Albers was held in awe as a theorist and a disciplinarian: an inspired Junker. Discipline was what Rauschenberg felt he needed...
...like the work of many another pioneer abstractionist with high spiritual ideals and an overoptimistic belief in the powers of art, Kupka's painting remains somewhat hermetic-at least in terms of its declared ambitions. About his historical precedence, there is no doubt...