Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West has little time to wake up, says Snow. "Closing the gap between our cultures is a necessity in the most abstract intellectual sense as well as in the most practical. When those two senses have grown apart, then no society is going to be able to think with any wisdom. For the sake of the intellectual life ... for the sake of the Western society living precariously rich among the poor, for the sake of the poor who needn't be poor if there is intelligence in the world, it is obligatory for us and the Americans...
...reputation for a while seemed to gutter and go out. Now, with a chance to review his lifetime's production at an exhibition of paintings at Manhattan's Graham galleries, critics have been shocked into recognizing Carles as one of the unsung ancestors of today's abstract painting...
Like most painters. Carles hoped for public confirmation that his new abstract direction was valid. In the socially conscious U.S. art world of the 1930s, such confirmation was not forthcoming. (In 1936 Leger visited him in Philadelphia, was amazed to find "anything like this going on in America.") Carles began painting and repainting the same canvases until they were too heavy to lift. The World War II migration of Paris painters -Chagall, Mondrian et al.-to Manhattan finally produced the understanding audience Carles longed for, but it was too late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered...
Manhattan gallery-hoppers found a refreshing change last week from the usual abstract-expressionist slatherings. Rome's Domenico Gnoli, an Old World newcomer of 26. exhibited a sheaf of big, clear-cut, conservative drawings at the Bianchini Gallery, found himself famed and in the money. What attracted critics and buyers alike was Gnoli's obvious mastery, modesty and calm. Though not the greatest virtues possible to art, these qualities are currently rare-and as delightful as cold water after a binge...
What cynics have long predicted finally came to pass: abstract art was on sale not by the painting but by the yard. In Munich's fashionable van de Loo Gallery, Italian Painter Pinot Gallizio, 57, did a booming business by snipping his 10-and 20-yard canvases into appropriate lengths. Customers were free to choose according to their needs and pocketbooks; "normal quality" sold for $25 per yd., "more profound quality" for $60 per yd. Leftovers went at a discount...