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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...
...Revolt. On the top spiral at the Guggenheim are displayed the eminents who died in the 1960s but whose work still seems relevant to the post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt...
...Harbor, Me., the old wharf has been thrown open to the public at $5 a head, proceeds to go to Maine's Republican Party. The tiny museum drew 900 visitors the first two days, including some indulgent socialites and many adamant Yankees who were pleased neither by the abstractionist paintings nor by the price of admission. Said one baffled down-Easter: "It's 100% rubbish, but I still like the Governor...
...museum's curator, Kynaston McShine, who selected the paintings, unpretentiously bills his exhibit as an "airy, informal, summer exhibition of big, beautiful paintings." The show includes both abstract and representational art. Veteran Abstractionist Gene Davis sets the eye dancing in Phantom Tattoo with a 10-ft. by 19-ft. cascade of multicolored awning stripes. Ellsworth Kelly does three giant, economy-size rectangles of flat color (one each of red, yellow and blue) covering 89 sq. ft. Alfred Jensen's four-paneled impasto consists of dozens of big squares, little squares, houndstooth checks, checkerboards and signal flags...
Forward to Zero. To most artists, however, the real lure is Düsseldorfs tantalizing whiff of Zeitgeist. The city's brusque hurly-burly provides both their modern subject matter and technological means for expressing their art. Gotthard Graubner, an abstractionist, for example, paints on huge, cloudlike formations of polyester produced at nearby factories. Peter Brüning, who like Winfred Gaul, is fascinated with traffic and touring maps, points out that he lives in Düsseldorf because it is the geographical center of a "seemingly endless area where roads become the interconnecting arteries between every possible manifestation...