Page 34 - Studio International - November 1967
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1945
vitality a wave of vitality
flooded the arts
action painting `un art autre'
abstract expressionism cobra
the artists plunge with abandon
into the unknown
in order to render visible
palpable audible perceptible
Willem Sandberg new life approaching
1960
the spirit of the vital tide
of postwar art
moving and turbulent
overwhelms the new generation
beatles blue jeans Provos
stir the youth
as a museum man i have tried to show what happened in cities and villages
in art with a series of exhibitions . among others :
`abstract art' amsterdam 1938, 'cobra' amsterdam 1949, let us look closer
`vitalita nel arte' venice 1959 and 'international art' into what happened :
at the seattle worlds fair 1962. in the present text i
am largely citing from the introductions to these what a difference
exhibitions and as illustrations i have chosen works between europe around world war I
from artists i exhibited after world war II. and europe after world war II
Ger Lataster Painting
oil on canvas
Gemeente Museum, Amsterdam
Left Jean Dubuffet Grillade de boeuf 1957
51⅛ x 31⅛ in.
oil on canvas
