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When a 19th century artist set out to depict the Stations of the Cross, he could fall back on a ready-made iconography. The fifth painting, he knew, must represent Simon helping Christ shoulder the cross. Not so for an abstract painter, who must face the problem of portraying the progression toward Calvary without the props of episodic, cartoon-strip clarity, and at the same time strive to render its essential agony. Barnett Newman, 61, the most abstract of the U.S. abstract expressionists, made the problem even harder: he resolved to limit himself to his own astringent style, depict Christ...
When war broke out between Czarist Russia and Germany in 1914, Gabo sought refuge in neutral Norway, accompanied by Alexei and a third brother, the cubist painter Antoine Pevsner. It was there, according to Alexei, that constructivism was born. "During walks along the shores of the fjords and in the mountains, both by day and during the white nights," he has recalled, Gabo returned again and again to "questions of space and time and to a search for means of expressing them." He soon found it. In 1915 he constructed a head from intersecting planes of colored cardboard, later translated...
...fascinated by his ideas, and Gabo even undertook a project for a radio station for the government. The honeymoon between the Bolsheviks and the avant-garde was brief. Soon he was on the move again, to Berlin, to Paris and then London, where he edited a book, Circle, with Painter Ben Nicholson and Architect Sir Leslie Martin, and finally to the U.S., where he still works diligently in a quiet studio in Middlebury, Conn...
Unhealthy Convention. Critics who praise him-and there are those, including British Critic Alan Bowness, who would rank him as "the greatest living French painter"-see Dubuffet as a major innovator, one who has drilled through to a largely ignored stratum of human consciousness: the images of psychotic art. Furthermore, his work is gaining admirers. This week, for instance, there are three major exhibitions in London, including a full-scale retrospective at the Tate, as well as a show in Paris...
...prominence lasted little more than a decade, but while it did Frederic Edwin Church caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense...