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choice and generous spacing. Pasmore·s unadulterated
Stanislav Libensky, Czechoslovakia
Blue Composition 1965 Glass
Frank Stella. U.S.A.
De la Nada Vida a la Nada Muerte 1965 81 ½ x 293 ins.
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and choice art had the most favourable possibility of
appreciation. Patrick Heron's colour chords sang in
their individual harmonies from painting to painting
and proper spacing allowed a musical strength to
establish a palpable mood. Heron received an honour­
able mention.
By contrast. Spain went all for quantity with in the
end the sole success of Joan Pone who for subtle colour
areas and wiry drawing received the Gold Medal as the
best foreign draughtsman Juan Genoves·s low relief
assemblages of old clothes and plaster objects had
morbid effect. Besides Pone. draughtsmen of interest
Marina Numez del Prado. Bolivia
Madre Cosmica 1965 Basalt 98 x 80 ems.
were Jaimee Muxart and Antonio Saurez.
Germany's two artists provided contrast in the
informal leafings and branchings of Hann Trier coloured
in pretty schemes and by Bruno Goller in the homely
hieratic figures of people in costumes of bygone
fashion set in pairs and fours of framed formality. akin to
Etruscan imagery as adapted by Campigli.
Holland with independence confined its three artists to
a variously figurative vein that had a surprise and the
possibility of engaging speculation beyond the appre­
ciation of form in their small dimensions. Co Westerik
contrived some strange erotic rites in his figures fre­
quently having the ambiguity of the zoomorphic and the
topographic. Wide-eyed innocence-or indifference-in
clean faces conceal none of the symbolism in other
compositions. He received an honourable mention.
In the United States section. the overwhelming intent
of painting in that country to become the background
for life was well-intended in the wall-sized canvases of
Barnett Newman. In these deep mural claddings. the
sole question is where the space will be divided by the
thin vertical band. The only alternative is to observe