Manny Farber, former Douglas man, film critic, artist dies at 91 Sep 23, 2008
A few years later he would meet painters like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes. As a critic and painter he has contributed to the discourse for more than 50 years. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Fresno Art Museum recognizes the work of artist June Schwarcz Sep 11, 2008
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Artist Farber's career a celebration of details Aug 25, 2008
His other crowd was artists, some who would go on to become more famous as the reputation of abstract expressionism grew historically important figures like Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. Though he had some success as an artist in New York, under the sway of abstract expressionism, it was his movie criticism that first secured his reputation as a brilliant, iconoclastic critic. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A life on display Jul 28, 2008
For decades she was on the margins, a minor contemporary and friend of giants like de Kooning, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, and Robert Motherwell, plumbing her potential as a Surrealist, then an Abstract Expressionist, and a Post-Minimalist. She was in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art by the early fifties, but remained largely ignored by the market. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
In Provincetown show, a look at cherished studios Jul 25, 2008
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Getting the hang of it Jul 19, 2008
"For better or worse, we have the biggest collection of Robert Motherwell works on paper in the world," says Teitelbaum, offering an example. "I happen to think it's for the good.". (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
His scattered dreams Jun 17, 2008
It begins brilliantly, with work completed when Twombly was the student of Robert Motherwell and the educator, draughtsman and painter Ben Shahn. Of the same generation as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Twombly luckily escaped the fate of being a second-generation abstract expressionist. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state Feb 3, 2008
There, David said in an e-mail, his parents were part of an art colony that included such names as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb and William Baziotes. In 1958, David said, his parents bought a Victorian house in Newton Center for $13,000. (Boston Globe)
Color as field Dec 29, 2007
He did not include Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman as Wilkin does in this exhibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts. The exhibition features more than 40 expansive canvases. (Durango Herald)
Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design Dec 16, 2007
He also became friends with Abstract Expressionist painters like Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline, who urged him to design thin frames that would be suitable for their work. His welded aluminum frame was created in 1956 when the Museum of Modern Art approached him for a frame to use for traveling exhibitions. (Boston Globe)
Traditional Santa Fe embraces future Aug 11, 2007
(Though there are exceptions even there, such as the new Gallery Moda, which has a formidable collection of post-war prints by American artists, Ellsworth Kelly, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Motherwell among them. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Books that are defined by their covers Jul 15, 2007
" "The binding should incorporate elements of the typeface used, the illustrations and the story," she says. Ramsey's discovery of her passion for the book arts was serendipitous. In the late 1960s, when she was an unemployed recent college graduate, Ramsey came across a catalog of fine book bindings. "I opened the book and fell in love," she laughs. Across the bay in an airy studio that contrasts with its gritty West Oakland location, Victoria Heif- ner, 40, of Milkfed Press tells a story of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A peninsula of wrecks, bogs, and players Jun 4, 2007
Artist Charles W. Hawthorne founded the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown in 1899, and the colony attracted the likes of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell. The Cape's 15 towns have a year-round population of 228,683, according to a 2005 US Census estimate. (Boston Globe)
Free Will Astrology May 9, 2007
19): "Most painting in the European tradition involved painting the person's mask," wrote abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. "Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter has been the person behind the mask." Your next assignment is similar to that of modern art's, Capricorn: to recognize everyone's persona, but delve deeper to explore the maddeningly complex, crazily inscrutable, gorgeously wounded soul that's hidden beneath everyone's persona. (City Pages)
Contemporary Currents: Selections from the Bank of America Collection May 7, 2007
The exhibition highlights works by Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Joan Mitchell, each whose works display a raw emotionalism, gestural mark making, and uninhibited paint application. Building on the tenants of Abstract Expressionism are works by Color Field artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose open expanses of thin pigment evoke notions of atmosphere and serenity. (Florida Times-Union)
Roy G. Biv Pays a Call Mar 22, 2007
Their circle of friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Tennessee Williams, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler. It seems only natural that Ms. Smith decided to embrace the arts on a more personal level. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
From the artist Clyfford Still, another 'bolt out of the blue' Mar 21, 2007
Robert Motherwell described Still's first solo show in New York in 1946 as "a bolt out of the blue." Critics hailed the sheer physicality, soaring presence and soulful sublimity of his abstract pictures. Yet his reclusiveness in later life and the unyielding stringency of his will have not served him well in posterity. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A Rothschild wine gets a royal label Feb 28, 2007
The labels were drawn by the likes of Marc Chagall, Robert Motherwell and Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dal. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Winona should savor the Blue Herons Feb 24, 2007
Usually the point of struggle for them was the abstract paintings of Robert Motherwell or Joseph Gotleibe. My favorite exhibition, that of painter Mark Rothko, was the most debated by my students. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Art installation Feb 8, 2007
The legacy included works by Jasper Johns, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell and other contemporary artists. This document was modified last on Feb 07, 2007 - 10:43:37 PST. (Anacortes Weekly, WA)
