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...usual, the Italian press refused to be caught praising the show. One critic wryly suggested that to give money to the prizewinners was irrelevant, and should be immaterial: a symbolist should receive a symbolic prize, an impressionist should be given the impression of having received a prize, and an abstractionist should get something more abstract than cash. Yet many seasoned observers joined in being critical: the big show was, as far as the exhibitions were concerned, one of the tamest since the first Venice Biennale, in 1895. The great abstractionists had taken their place in history, and there seemed...
Died. Gabriele Münter, 85, eminent German expressionist painter and one of the key founders of the fabled Blue Rider group of modern artists (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee), a mournful, gentle Berliner who was Abstractionist Kandinsky's longtime mistress and just last year received her first U.S. one-woman show; after a long illness; in Murnau, Germany. Kandisnky jilted her during World War I, but left her 120 oils and countless graphics (valued at more than $500,000), which the scorned Gabriele left unwrapped for 43 years until 1957 when, without so much as a glance...
...touch of horror. Without luck's greatest blessings, the photographer who wanted to duplicate the painting would wait (for the clear light, for the tilt of the head) longer than it took the artist to learn to paint. And if the explicit drawing had been lost in abstractionist broad-brushing, its power would have been lost...
Abstract art, in its heyday after World War II, had a vitality and expressiveness that will forever enrich painting and sculpture. But in much of the abstractionist work of recent years, the vitality has seemed played out, and a sizable school of critics has decided that abstract is old hat. Last week, musing over the recent annual at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Frank Getlein, the conservative art critic for the liberal New Republic, gave a lively verdict on the state of abstraction today...
...Pollock before the artist's sudden death sent Pollock prices skyrocketing. The Albright was the first museum in the world to buy a Clyfford Still and one of the first to buy a Henry Moore. It now has at least one work by almost every major abstractionist from the late Arthur Dove and Wassily Kandinsky to Willem DeKooning. Mark Tobey and Robert Motherwell. Today, says Knox-and not many in the art world would disagree-there is only one collection of abstract work that is better, the one in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan...