Word: brutalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mystery & Authority. Real. Estate Man Joseph Randall Shapiro, 63, president of the fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art (TIME, Nov. 3), is equally geared to the current scene. His private collection consists primarily of surrealist and brutalist works, about which he often writes and lectures (Francis Bacon's Man in the Blue Box, for example, was recently taken along to a Presbyterian church to illustrate a lecture on the existential human condition). Though Shapiro maintains that he has never paid more than $5,000 in cash for a painting (and seen some appreciate to as much...
...around a group of Moscovites over 30 whose academic indoctrination was interrupted by World War II. They work as book illustrators or in publishing houses. Their paintings are frequently primitive, but often by design as well as accident, since many of them are familiar with the work of French Brutalist Jean Dubuffet and Mexican pre-Columbian art. Above all, they hark back to the powerful, stylized tradition of Russian icon painting that flourished between the 15th and 17th centuries...
Newest discovery is "Brutalist" Norbert Tadeusz, son of a Polish-descended Dortmund coal miner; only one year out of the Düsseldorfs liberal Academy of Fine Arts, he has already been represented in nine shows, become a collector's favorite. Tadeusz' teacher, Joseph Beuys, is also out of the ordinary. A onetime Hitler Youth and World War II Stuka pilot, Beuys has undergone a characteristic postwar metamorphosis to become Düsseldorfs reigning neo-Dada hero. He is celebrated for his Chaplinesque smile, battered Homburg, octopuslike drawings, sculptures made of chocolate and lard, for the splendiferous happenings...