Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vinci is famous for one female smile, Whistler for his mother. Degas captured girlishness from gawky grace to the glamorous fall from it. "So why is it unusual that I paint women?" asks Willem de Kooning, at 60 the foremost U.S. artist still working vigorously in the abstract expressionist idiom...
Died. Milton Clark Avery, 71, pre-abstract-expressionist painter whose studies of blocky, faceless figures and wispy, grey-green seascapes in the 1920s drew a blank with the public, yet so inspired such young artists as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb that he became a pivotal influence on them, even though he himself had to wait until the 1950s before his own primitivistic, relatively representational canvases finally brought as much as $10,000; after a long illness; in New York City...
Johns's choice of Ballantine ale cans came from an offhand remark by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning to Johns's dealer, Leo Castelli: "Give that s.o.b. two beer cans and he could sell them." Johns proved he could (price: $1,000). Johns has also made art out of neon lettering, chairs, paint brushes and cast light bulbs in bronze...
JAMES HARVEY-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. Harvey, an abstract expressionist, is also a commercial artist, and he took a dim view of Pop Painter Andy Warhol's Brillo-box copies. Harvey, after all, had designed the original. Harvey's new paintings consist of whirling wheels of color that hang dizzily even from the ceiling. They look as though they would be hard to copy. Through...
EMILE NOLDE and ERNST KIRCHNER-Auslander, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. For anyone who missed the Museum of Modern Art's Nolde retrospective last year, this small sampling (some 20 works) offers another look at his brooding landscapes and blazing watercolors. A fellow German expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, is seen in six works. Through...