Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What's wrong with art critics? "Most of them are too superficial...
...Surindépendents. When a black-and-white Soulages painting was used as the cover for the catalogue of a show of young painters traveling to West Germany, Soulages was made. Repeating the formula ever since has only increased his fame, placed him in the front ranks of French abstract painters. As a leading exponent of the new school. Soulages delivers its manifesto: "The School of Paris doesn't exist-there is only the school of freedom. We have learned to be free...
...exhibitions mark the publication of German Expressionism and Abstract Art, by Charles L. Kuhn, curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum...
...best thing about it all is the character of the professor, who puddles around quoting Zeno and being abstract, and turns out to be perceptive even about one or two of the details of everyday existence. Sex, for instance. His bland assertion of delightfully simple and complex statements is masterful...
Although he calls many of his contemporaries who show their works "the frustrated Bob Hopes of 57th Street," Still rates high in abstract artists' circles. Art Critic Clement Greenberg calls him "the most original painter alive"; Manhattan's Modern Museum places him among the top four U.S. abstractionists...