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Spearheading the structuralist movement is Donald Judd. His sleek, dry, assertive boxes at the Castelli Gallery transcend geometric cliches and allusions to other objects. His wife, Julie wears a pink dinner tent by Teal Traina.
"The Formal, frontal, next-to-godliness clean painting of Ellsworth Kelly, pioneered by him in the 1940's, established Kelly as the artist's artist of today." Beside him, Judith Heidler, of the Sydney Janis Gallery wears a carved white silk satin dress by Mollie Parnis."
Lookable Legs
Ballantyne White Cashmere T over Bryans Lace Tights
Ice-cube bracelet designed for Bazaar by Vendome
Salvatore Scarpitta's irrepressible racing cars gain aesthetic momentum in Leo Castelli's Gallery space, and from their tug-of-war with the walls. He considers himself a "square artist, as opposed to Pop,hip,cool. A racetrack is like a woman. The more beautiful, the more dangerous. You know that somewhere along the way, a man can meet the greatest or the most painful moment of his life."
Miss Susan Porter is photographed beside him in a softly-belted white wool crepe dress from Adele Simpson.
Enrique Castro-Cid's works can be outrageously loveable. Castro-Cid speaks with roisterous zest about Vesalius, Leibnitz, cybernetics. He and his wife Sylvia are an enchanting Chilean couple. His work is at the Richard Feigen Gallery. Sylvia wears Chester Weinberg.
Shock pink tights by Hanes. Earrings by Atelier Nina
Robert Watts takes the familiar into the synthetics of commercial culture. The object in its new locus is startling: chairs that light up with neon, a strobe-lit room in which one has the feeling of being alone in space with a man-made sun. Miss Dorothy Herzka of the Bianchini Gallery wears Christian Dior-New York.
Guy de Rougemont produces huge, slow-tension paintings. He shows at the Byron Gallery. He stands with Benedetta Barzini wearing a trouser-suit by Ginala.
Fashion Paper
The Paper Dress of Kayeel
Judith Brewer
In the expansive color paintings of Edward Avedesian, the single giant circle - striped in blushing yellows and oranges, voltage packed purples and blues - recurs with a deliberateness that enthralls anew each time. Though they are perfect circles and even stripes, their soft edges give the impression that they're swelling and shrinking as they bounce, dance and sometimes float off the canvas. Miss Linda Perlman of the Elkon Gallery where he shows, is wearing Oscar de la Renta.
John Gruen and Jane Wilson. She paints exquisite landscapes, shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He is the chief art critic of the new World Journal. His vivid book, The New Bohemia, is just off the press. Jane's pitch-brown dress is by Chuck Howard of Townley. Kenneth Jay Lane jewelry.
Fashion Paper
Vibrant yellow and orange paper dress of plasticel
Judith Brewer
Half paintings, half sculptures, Sven Kukin's works leap from the canvas and crawl on the floor with a physical - almost living- presence and voracity for the room space at the Pace Gallery. Miss Jessie Sanders sits with him wearing Geoffrey Beene.
The extraordinarily potent sculptures of Paul Thek - raw torn pounds of what may be human flesh, residing in the clinical cool of glossy glass cases - hurt the viewer into extending his sensibilities. In his seemingly impersonal, inhuman treatment of an emotionally explosive subject, he challenges one to go beyond the initial shock, to an intellectual acceptance, and then to a rejoicing in the naked vulnerability of the flesh. With him, Miss Laura Morse wears Bill Blass for Maurice Retner.
A cap of pseudo pearls plunged shoulder-length in swirls of deft luster. A wig to outwit nature's plumage styled by Mark Traynor for Richelieu worn wit a brief bikini laden with the tiniest pearls - also by Richelieu.
The American Art Scene
Agnes Martin
Claes and Patty Oldenburg
Richard Lindner
Left-to-right
Top-to-bottom
James Rosenquist
Charles Hinman
Lee Bontecou
Tom Wesselman
Larry Bells
Lucas Samaras
Roy Lichtenstein
Kenneth Noland
Marvin Israel
The American Art Scene
Portraits by Diane Arbus
The Stocking Shoe
Herbert Levine-Nina Ricci
Giorgio de Chirico
Surrealism or "The White-Haired Revolver"
"Surrealism is tenacious, perennial. Surrealism is one of the central pivots of contemporary sensibility, of our sense of identity and dissociation. This revolutionary aspiration was articulated by a generation of men enchanted and possessed; one thinks of them walking the streets of Paris in that state of exacerbated awareness, of voracious attentiveness, which constitute forms of beatitude. The energy and fervor of these painters, poets and polemicists spilled out, unable wholly to spend itself in the manifestos,fights, festivities, in the rituals, games and acts of provocation.
Surrealist art was an art of redemption."
Annette Michelson
Rene Magritte
Max Ernst
Surreal Footwear
Plastic toe ring slipped over sandalfoot thong stockings by Mary Grey. Never-before sole of crystal-clear plexiglass designed especially for Harper's Bazaar by Mears. Ring by Atelier Nina.
" In the last twenty-five years, the creative centre of the art world has shifted from Paris to New York. Art is now, for better or worse. big business, a commodity, and as much a part of the American scene as a refrigerator. But these facts wouldn't matter a whit if art hadn't also burst its boundaries to become livleier, more provocative, more original and more fetter-shattering than ever before. The very basic concept of painting was first challenged and altered by Mondrian and abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollack. They changed its classic aim from illusion (ie., representing three dimensions in two) to being a reality in itself. Then, pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein returned to representation and used the secondary image as a primary source of inspiration by painting, not from life, but from soup can advertisements, comic strips and commercialized symbols of life. Op artists like Anuszkiewicz chose geometrics to beguile and dazzle the eye. Simultaneously, painters like Frank Stella, began to eschew the traditional rectangular or square-shaped canvas in favor of their own free outline."
"In 1932, Madame Gres, who was then known as Alix, came to the attention of the fashionable world. She has never since lost that attention. Thirty-two years later, she continues at the top of French couture, a unique talent - her timeless, draped silk jersey dresses, prized possessions of their owners. One of the few true dressmakers left (charming witness of her profession, the worn little pincushion that swings from her waist as she works), she cuts material directly without pattern or drawing, using in one dress from twenty to seventy yards of fabric. Paradoxically, Madame Gres is a woman famed, but little known. Shy, tiny, with the elegant bones of a mandarin, she is both a designer and a sculptor. Her hands hold a length of cloth or sculptor's tools with the same touch that '"knows,"' that feels, without grasping, the essence of what is held. Everything about her speaks an awareness of what lies beneath, the irreducible, the bones of life, excess and detail pared away - her Paris apartment, strong-to-stark, filled but not cluttered with marvelous antique Chinese rugs and Gothic statuary; her taste for the muted blessings of gray and beige, and, of course, her designs, miracles of draping that could have graced a Venus in ancient Greece. Her own manner of dressing is always simple - a sweater and skirt for work, a gray squirrel pullover for a city stroll; for evening, the perfection of a white silk velvet tunic dress swathed in a toss of white fox and, night or day, the tight-drawn turban. The gift so apparent in all she designs is and only could be the result of a disciplined, unsparing effort toward perfection which she, as nearly as it is possible, achieves." Diane Arbus
Madame Gres wears her camel coloured coat with mandarin collar and an asymmetrical closing madame gres: a unique talent Harper's Bazaar February 1964 Photography: Diane Arbus
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