Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist who has survived this gauntlet and is now coming into his own is Princeton-educated William Kienbusch, 42, now showing at Manhattan's Kraushaar Galleries. The surest sign of his arrival: the fact that U.S. museums now own 18 of his colorful semi-abstract paintings of the Maine coast, seven of them purchased in the last year alone...
...extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is no Index! For in the Anglican Communion there is most fully expressed the basic Christian belief that God reveals Himself, not in esoteric abstract speculation, but in history, 'in events through which we event,' in a St. Francis, in a St. John Hus, in the Celtic Saints...
...things in art. And it is dangerous to have a social conscience. Painting has escaped or been diverted from social concerns by concentrating on form. Wether or not prosperity is the mistress of aestheticism, both seem to have won the day. In America's greatest contemporary school of art, abstract expressionism, de Kooning looms as a demi-god to the disenchanted because some idea of pain and depth, some recognition of the essential difficulty of life, emerges from his struggle with form...
...current wails of established colleges testify that even abstract thinking about expansion is difficult, that building a new institution of immediate high quality is a prodigious task. Brandeis has accomplished that task...
...Harvard Law School. Accordingly, Red appeared at the Law School in 1932, where in spite of high marks, he found that the law did not quite suit him. From glimpses of his father's New York office he had concluded that the law was too mechanical and abstract, and that he wanted to work in something more personal. Soon he switched to the Episocopal Theological Seminary...