Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisans of abstraction were equally upset. With U.S. abstract expressionist art shows now winning an international audience,-they feared that the U.S. at Brussels had been trapped into scattering its fire, was in danger of losing the initiative already gained. Art News Executive Editor Thomas B. Hess labeled the U.S. representation at the fair a comical scandal, lacking in seriousness. He called for an all-out showing of the serious abstract painters and sculptors who "in the past 15 years have exerted an international influence, from Japan to Rome...
...make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean Arp for a forthcoming retrospective, the museum found that Arp abstractions painted with oil on canvas can enter duty free, but an Arp collage (made of pasted doilies, tapestry and cloth) is dutiable. Arp's abstract marble, Configurations of Serpent Movements, was cleared because its title suggests it was modeled on "imitations of natural objects," whereas Arp's equally...
...personal mission to restore France to greatness. His concept of political leadership smacks suspiciously of authoritarianism to many Frenchmen who hold zealous devotion to the ideals of individual liberty and the inherent virtue of la Republique as it stands. Such devotion, laudable as it may be in the abstract, is, however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity for the past twelve years, represents France's best, and probably only, chance to pour...
Dadaism. In London, Artist Pierre de Villiers, who failed to sell a picture for eight straight years at the open-air art show on the banks of the Thames, easily sold for five guineas ($14.70) an abstract expressionist painting by his three-year-old son Romany...
...doubtless face stern constitutional testing as to whether it violated the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, is an attempt to answer the Supreme Court for reversing the Smith Act convictions of 14 California Communists. The court last year held that the Smith Act did not cover the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow, but only the "teaching and advocacy of action in language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action...