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Remembering the Future. Brooks is a sage man who does better than most in trying to articulate the sometimes manic-expressive business of abstract art. Of the mysterious moment when paint leaves the brush and becomes painting, he says: "The crucial thing for a painter is getting to the point where he can maintain some sort of pictorial balance between alertness and dumbness, where he is thinking but it can't be classified as thinking...
Cried the scandalized Huntington Herald-Advertiser: "Tourism may have been dealt a body blow." Sidestepped Governor William W. Barron: "I'd better let the experts comment on it." Commented Expert Sweeney: "I picked what I liked best." Philosophized Painter-Carpenter Moss: "It isn't anything intended to be uncomplimentary. It looks complimentary, maybe...
...modern terms, but to illuminate a modern hero's death with myths. Updike slights Prometheus, and his book surfers. The reader learns little more than that Peter is bright, has psoriasis (the vulture's peck, presumably), and that as an adult he is a second-rate abstract painter with a Negro mistress...
...more than 4,000 submitted as colored slides, display a comic propensity for dated titles: November 25th, July III, 23 September 1959, July 20, '61, Between March and April. Even the winner of the $2,000 first prize belongs to this chronometric school of titling. Thursday, by Manhattan Painter Jack Tworkov. 62, is an old-fashioned abstraction of park-bench green and fire-engine red, organized, says Tworkov, "to achieve a certain dynamism you don't get in other styles of painting. If you don't like this kind of dynamism, you won't like...
...conclave of nudes sprawled around the rooms of Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery gives the place the air of a millinery bawdyhouse: most of the ladies in the paintings wear large, horticultural hats and little else. Painter Ben Johnson, 60, brings off the neat trick of evoking an almost Rubens fleshiness while adhering to a strict hard-edge technique, and his voluptuaries thrive surprisingly well in their poster environment...