Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Push and Pull. Romance faded but inspiration remained. Almost immediately, he began to attract attention. He became the pupil of Hans Hofmann, dean of the uninhibited "push and pull" technique. But no sooner was Rivers safely launched as a promising abstract expressionist than boredom...
...seasons, Venice's International Festival of Contemporary Music has more than once moved its audiences to near violence; in his 48 years, self-styled Non-Expressionist Composer John Cage, the "prepared piano" man, has reduced more than one audience to near lunacy. Last week U.S. Composer Cage and the Contemporary Music Festival linked forces in a concert at Venice's famed old La Fenice Theater. The explosion could be heard across the Grand Canal...
...Institute of Contemporary Art, which twelve years ago brought Austria's most famous expressionist painter, Oskar Kokoschka, to American museums, is now doing the same for his contemporary, Egon Schiele. Hopefully, this will do as much for Schiele as the previous exhibit did of Kokoschka, for undoubtedly Schiele deserves the international fame he has never received...
...going their own ways. The direction of any tune might change from bar to bar, depending on which musicians happened to have "the dominant ear at that moment." The drummer repeatedly shifted his rhythm, forcing concessions from the other players. At best, the result evoked an abstract expressionist painting whose dots, slashes and blobs are miraculously knitted into a pattern...
...three, Helen Frankenthaler, 31, daughter of a judge, product of Bennington College, wife of First Generation Abstract-Expressionist Robert Motherwell, is in some ways the most daring in her work. "I often start with a canvas on the floor," she once said, "then work on it on the wall, changing back and forth, working at it from different sides." She usually begins with no particular idea in mind: "Let's say I start with some arbitrary color, or I simply start." Gradually, the picture builds-"an amorphous inner-world perspective that lies flat on canvas and yet flies...