Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curiously enough, Hartley came to renounce expressionist painting. "Underlying all sensible works of art," he wrote in 1928, "there must be somewhere in evidence the particular problem understood. I would rather be sure that I had placed two colors in true relationship to each other than to have exposed a wealth of emotionalism gone wrong in the name of richness of personal expression." Hartley's chief fame now rests on the cool, blunt, composed, deliberate Maine landscapes that occupied his last years...
...they were to continue as artists: get out of Germany or go underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition now on display at Chicago's Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, show that Winter...
...ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more on painting. This week some of the earlier works of the great Austrian Expressionist are on exhibit at the Gropper Galleries...
...Daily Telegraph was concerned, the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell "bombinate in a void. Nothing is communicated beyond an apparently fortuitous anarchy of pigmentation." "An air of impermanence," said the Observer. The arch-conservative London Times conceded that the abstract-expressionist movement is the "one development in American art ... [that] has gained for the United States an influence upon European art which it has never exerted before." But as for the works themselves, the Times declared: "The large, uncompromising canvases . . . have a monumental impermanence, show a defiance of Art and a kind of strange anonymity...
...following a spinal injury during flight training. Flat on his back in the hospital, he took up drawing and painting; the play of light on the ceiling became one of his favorite themes. Invalided out of the Army, he gravitated into the orbit of San Francisco's abstract-expressionist movement, headed by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and David Park. Among Francis' student contemporaries: John Hultberg, 33, first prizewinner in last year's Corcoran Biennial (TIME, May 2 et seq.), and Lawrence Calcagno, 39 (TIME...