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must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the that have at least four things in common : a concern for
cruelty of the impotent who would extend their the clarified contour; a desire to suppress the individual
affliction universally.' brush stroke ; a wilful attempt, paradoxical as it may
With the maturing of a new generation of artists, new seem, to understate the idiosyncratic or the personal ;
sets of attitudes came to take the place of the old ones and an interest in presenting a seemingly machine-
as well as to vie with each other. Such 'middle crafted object to the public. These movements are Pop
generation' artists as Richard Diebenkorn and Robert and Op Art and the New Abstraction or Concrete
Rauschenberg, although neither of them hard edge Expressionism.
artists, helped many over the autobiographical hurdle In content, Pop represents a concern for things, Op
by their deeds and words. It was Diebenkorn, for manifests a desire to imitate science, and Concrete
instance, who said : 'I came to mistrust my desire to Expressionism wants to arrange shapes discreetly.
explode the picture and supercharge it in some way,' Insofar as these modes also transform and develop
Willem de Kooning and Rauschenberg who offered the following : 'Any certain aspects or tendencies of Abstract Expressionism,
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69 x 79 in. incentive to paint is as good as any other.' they may be looked upon as continuations rather than
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Among movements that have attracted significant as reactions to the older movement. Many Pop
Buffalo. New York
Gift of Seymour H. Knox 1955 attention in the last five or six years there are those paintings and sculptures, in focusing upon a single