Spanish-born Joan Junyer (pronounced Zho-ahn Zhoon-yea) is an artist with a fresh eye who feels confined by frames and flat surfaces. For ten years he has tried to get a sense of volume into his paintings by rejecting the conventional canvas for molded shapes of wood and plaster. His paintings (TIME, July 9) sweep around curves, roll wavelike along walls. Last week Artist Junyer's latest assault on convention was on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.
It was a brightly colored drinking fountain that looked vaguely like some giant metallic orchid—8 ft. high, with flowing petals and a stippled yellow, blue...
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