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...Critic John Canaday, describing Barr as the "most powerful tastemaker in American art today," called Barr's statement a "body blow" to abstract expressionism, the impulsive painting of things unrecognizable, hoping for fortuitous results. "There is not a dealer in town, nor a collector, nor yet a painter who hopes to hang in the Museum of Modern Art who doesn't study each of Mr. Barr's syllables. If Mr. Barr sees a 'new concern with figure,' there is going to be a rush toward the art stores where those little books called...
...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...
There are two self-portraits in the exhibit from 1914, one of the painter as Saint Sebastian (typical of Schiele's persecution complex), and the other an oil in which Schiele appears with deep-set eyes and a wan, bony countenance. As Death, he reaches out towards his model who shrinks away into the somber, slightly cubist background...
...gathering material at the Hermitage for a monograph on the Dutch painter Franz Hale, Slive said he found a great many works by that painter which are totally unknown outside Russia today...
...Painter. A waggish, 15-minute tale about the wondrous 'work habits of a dribble-and-splotch painter...