Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge today, however, the forces of righteousness are mustering against the undesirables in much the same way that Back Bay rallied against South Boston. These days, however, such squabbles are being relegated to a prudent limbo. The fight involves the less abstract factors of city administration and the school system...
Crowding into Milan's seedy, smoke-filled Halcyon Theater, 547 Social Democratic bigwigs shouted and orated in impressive abstract discussions of Marxist theory, but were unable even to agree on a platform for Italy's general elections, now only six months off. After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after...
...Gerald Kelly, 78, painter and past president of Britain's Royal Academy, is a salty soul who once sat before the microphones of the BBC and described a Rembrandt self-portrait as "a bloody work of genius" and abstract art as "a kind of measles." Last week Sir Gerald pulled off a bloody triumph of his own. Up on the walls of the Royal Academy's galleries were 291 of his works in a special one-man exhibition, the fourth in the academy's history to be given a living artist. Included was a large...
...Here is a young man, reaching for expression in a field largely unknown and presumably forbidden to him," said Cordier. The paintings indicated little more than a novice's groping attempts at abstract art, but they showed a high degree of artistic consciousness. They also gave proof that no matter how tightly sealed off Russian painters may be, there is, as one Parisian artgoer put it, "only one cosmos...
...Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...