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...JULES OLITSKI-Poindexter, 21 West 56th. Butterfly Kiss, Fatal Plunge, Pink Casanova, The Flaming Passion of Beverly Torrid. Carnegie Winner Olitski's titles sound more like lipsticks than paintings, but they are provocative. Butterfly Kiss, for example, is a yawning cavity of empty canvas that separates a pulsating orange blob from a passionate pink blip. Through March...
Thanks, TIME, for making my wish come-true with that beautiful reproduction of Osculum Silence by Jules Olitski, second prizewinner in painting now being seen at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition [Nov. 3]. When I saw that big, throbbing painting on the opening night of the exhibition, I thought to myself, "How I'd like to have a good reproduction of that!" So once again I am grateful to TIME and to its ART section...
THAT'S A Kiss? Poor Mr. Olitski...
Powerful Paintwork. Russian-born Jules Olitski, 39, studied portrait painting at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, went to Paris on the G.I. Bill and worked under Ossip Zadkine, now lives in Northport, Long Island. His work has gradually become more and more abstract, but even as he retreats from reality, he manages to put into his canvases the throb of life. His winning work (see color) expresses to him "the intense silence of a kiss," which accounts for its improbable title. It is more successful not as an expression of emotion but as a powerful piece of paintwork...