Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of an abstract number relationship owing to the mathematical structure of nature, he cited the mathematical study of languages which revealed that the equation relating the frequency with which certain words are used is of the same form as the equation for the distribution of the bodies in a system that has come to equilibrium. He used a blackboard to write equations, much to the pleasure of the Sanders audience, but to the consternation of those in the New Lecture Hall...
...Peter's, had a recent showing in Manhattan, and is now represented at the Museum of Modern Art by his tender, elegant Portrait of a Lady. Discussing his own work, Manzu says: "Each man has his way of expressing the poetry within him. Some sculptors try the abstract way. My way is the figurative way." His series of religious figures and his robed female figures and nudes have dignity and grace, as well as an unmistakable poetry of their...
BEFORE World War II, abstract art was dominated by the geometrical and almost architectural paintings that grew out of cubism and culminated in Piet Mondrian's austere compositions in primary red, white and blue. But in the past decade has come a new experiment with intense, expressive forms that use flowing, linear rhythms as a kind of "handwriting" or "gesture-painting," linking Western art and the ancient Oriental art of calligraphy...
...book is painful and embarrassing on many counts. It asks the reader to share what Lael Tucker Wertenbaker calls her "abstract joy in the quality of his death," after which her "winter-white skin turned quite black and stayed dark for two days." It reports every intimate clinical detail of the pain, distress and hopelessness that afflict the victim of terminal cancer. As such, it tends to force into silence critics who may feel that they have been invited to share a private rite that Lael Tucker created about her dying husband-but who have doubts about its public validity...
Scripture forbids the creation of graven images.* but the compelling affirmation of the Talmud is "This is my God and I shall adorn Him." The solution for one of Israel's leading artists. Yehoshua Kovarsky, 49, was to move into his own kind of abstract symbolism, while holding to the philosophy that "an abstraction must have meaning for the viewer...