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  • Author(s): Farber, Manny
  • Source:
    Nation. 1/6/1951, Vol. 172 Issue 1, p19-19. 2/3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      AVANT-garde (Arts); PAINTING; POLITICAL leadership; ARTISTS
    • Subject Terms:
      SAN Francisco (Calif.); CALIFORNIAReport Available; UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information about an art exhibition of avant-garde paintings. These paintings are done by a young San Francisco clique whose somber, still nature abstractions are totally free of European influences. The painters' yawning canvases suggest a number of geographical references. San Francisco's position as jumping-off point to the Orient is suggested by effects reminiscent of Chinese painting-particularly by the washy, atmospheric color. These painters, however, are neither regionalists nor realists. They are, on the contrary, true non-objectivists-arch rebels against the self-confident act always present in European painting.