Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that he hoped would have the quality of "burning power in an icy chalice." The closing of the Bauhaus in May 1933 signaled the beginning of a second long night over Germany...
Strong & Harsh. In the rubble Hitler left, only the hardiest roots of modern art managed to survive. Of the younger generation, the strongest figures combine something of the expressive color of Nolde with the abstract structure handed down by Kandinsky. A leading example is the whiplike abstraction and sweeping, calligraphic symbol of Hans Hartung (TIME, April 1), a German who fought against the Nazis in the French Foreign Legion and is now a French citizen...
...shop is filled with a conglomeration of exotic glue pots, picture frames, the smell of turpentine, prints from the Ming Dynasty, welded metal sculpture, mobiles, folk pottery, and usually an exhibition of the most abstract of abstracts by one young artist or another. Paul has recently come down to earth with a small shop on the street level devoted entirely to ceramics. His personality can be felt everywhere in a quiet, yet intense sort of way as he arranges things or looks up as someone comes in the door...
Delaunay quickly swept on to the uncharted frontiers of the abstract, becoming one of the original pioneers with Kandinsky and Picabia. He called this his "constructive" period. Delaunay's interest was concentrated on color. His theorizing (he would talk for hours, even if no one seemed to be listening, "to get my ideas in better order") led him to the notion that "the breaking of forms by light creates colored figurations. These colored figurations are the structure of the picture, and nature is no longer a subject of description." The theory was revolutionary. Said Delaunay: "Thus far, a tree...
...Provincetown, Mass., which thought it had seen its great days when Eugene O'Neill's players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most of them clustered around Manhattan Mentor Hans Hofmann, 75, whose summer class this year numbers loo-odd. Talk of the town: a lighthearted deviation from orthodoxy by one of the founders of abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell, who is showing 32 line drawings of a nude model. ¶ East Hampton, Long Island...