Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dadaism. In London, Artist Pierre de Villiers, who failed to sell a picture for eight straight years at the open-air art show on the banks of the Thames, easily sold for five guineas ($14.70) an abstract expressionist painting by his three-year-old son Romany...
...sometimes uses photographs in painting nature-titled abstractions, readily admits that nature has long been an at-the-elbow companion. Says John Helicker, another abstractionist: "The best paintings I have ever done relate to the deepest feelings I have had about a place." But old-line Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb grimly dissents: "I never use nature as a starting point, I never abstract from nature, I never consciously think of nature when I paint. In the painting Red Sky, my intention was simply to divide the canvas roughly in two, using red paint in one area and black paint...
Married. Robert Motherwell, 43, and Helen Frankenthaler, 29, both abstract expressionist painters; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan. The phrase Je t'aime was featured in the titles of several of the groom's most recently exhibited canvases; e.g., in last year's Whitney annual his entry was called (in translation): I Love...
While there is a recession in the U.S. economy, one group of Americans more accustomed to bust than boom is in the midst of a new wave of prosperity. They are Manhattan's abstract expressionist painters, who until three years ago could rarely afford to move out of their coldwater, walk-up studios. Now their shows are selling out, and at record high prices...
...pulled out his pipe and mentioned the theologian as he struck a match. "Fabulous, isn't he? Depth psychology, symbolic meaning, Hegelian dialectic, expressionist art, existentialism, and all twentieth-century: complex, bold, systematic...Everything...