Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson Pollock, by Frank O'Hara, extravagantly lauds the late drip painter. Pollock was no demigod nor even a prophet, simply an original and forceful decorative artist on the grand scale...
...when the Tombstone Law goes out of operation. And last week three of the U.S. Marine Corps' four top officers decided that they too should depart before the deadline. The three, all lieutenant generals: Vernon E. Megee, 59, commanding the Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific; Edwin A. Pollock, 60, commanding the FMF in the Atlantic, and Merrill B. Twining, 56, commandant of the Marine Corps School at Quantico (and younger brother of Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Upon retirement under the Tombstone Law, all three will achieve four-star rank...
...displayed in the "Jungle-gym" designed by George Nelson, U.S. art at the Moscow exhibition is drawing upward of 20,000 people a day. Guards have a hard time keeping the crowd moving, not because people are impressed by the show so much as because puzzlement halts them. Jackson Pollock's drip picture called Cathedral stops visitors cold. "Where is the cathedral?" they ask. Andrew Wyeth's Children's Doctor and Edward Hooper's stark, vivid Lighthouse at Two Lights are the standout favorites. Among the sculptures on display, Gaston Lachaise's hugely curvaceous Standing...
...rooms (two public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan Miró, a stage curtain painted by Picasso...
Since the death three years ago of Jackson Pollock, young abstractionists in search of a style have acclaimed as their leader New York City's Dutch-born Willem de Kooning, 55. A slim man with steel-grey hair, De Kooning does not welcome the title, shuts himself up in his Greenwich Village studio for weeks at a time, refusing to see visitors or acknowledge telegrams. When Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter offered him a one-man exhibition, he turned it down. He was not ready, he said. In the past three years he has allowed...