In Paris, which jealously defends its own conviction that it is still the world's greatest art center, art critics rarely feel compelled to write high praise for an American. But American Action Painter Paul Jenkins, 37, has been winning applause for four years, and when his current show opened at the Galerie Karl Flinker, the critics found in it "surprising presence and purity,'' "deeply felt poetry," "moving forms."
True enough, the work was a bit difficult to describe; in an introduction to the show's catalogue. Novelist James Jones expressed his own frustration with...
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