Word: expressionists
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...
...some years Franz Kline has been turning out slashing black-and-white calligraphs bigger than a man. Most critics and the bearded young espresso-sippers of Greenwich Village place him on the top shelf of the abstract-expressionist hierarchy. Last Monday Kline's first show in two years opened at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery. Eager buyers were beating at the gallery doors as early as 8:30 a.m., swarmed in to inspect his new abstractions, including some (uncharacteristically for Kline) in flamboyant color. Long before the official opening at 4 p.m. buyers had snapped...
...usual welter of abstract expressionist shows around Manhattan last week, the one at the Saidenberg Gallery stood out by reason of its quietness, tenderness and lack of pretension. Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish) is the first to concede that his work looks pale beside that of more "muscular" practitioners of abstract expressionism. Their art, he adds mildly, "is like therapy; in a desperate situation one has to hit at whatever there is to hit. But there is danger when the defense mechanism becomes a gesture that everyone uses...
...Whitney Museum's annual exhibition of contemporary American art, on view in Manhattan last week, included one picture each by 145 painters. Nine out of ten exhibitors, many of them formerly figurative painters, had joined the abstract expressionist ranks. Despite some brilliantly decorative items, their combined effect was as loud and dreary as a bowling alley from the pin boys' viewpoint...