Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Pais' idea of simplicity is not the usual one. "It seems necessary," he continued, "to extend the usual space-time description and, in a very abstract sense, one may say that a higher dimensional frame of description is necessary. In my theory, this means six dimensions...
...making the Orwellian future believable ("without putting on a space-cadet kind of show"), hired British Playwright William P. Templeton to do the adaptation. Jackson also decided, with Director Paul Nickell, that the shape of the superstate could be suggested, rather than spelled out, by lighting tricks and simple, abstract sets...
...Recklinghausen, Germany, in a converted bomb shelter, 25 artists offered their experiments in stained glass for churches. Since more than 7,000 German churches were destroyed during World War II, these men may have plenty of commissions in the next decade. They favor abstract art, wedded to gothic glass techniques, and hope to woo churchmen away from the sweetly realistic style so long in fashion. The Netherlands' Johann Thorn Prikker, who died in 1932, has done as much as any stained-glass designer to set the new direction for his German colleagues. He was represented in the show...
...Manhattan, a midtown gallery was showing stained glass by 18 living Americans, many of them well-known painters. Among the standouts was a rectangular abstraction by I. (for Irene) Rice Pereira, done in two layers of glass whose straight lines seemed to shift their positions whenever the viewer shifted his. Equally original, but with more feeling, was Peter Ostuni's abstract evocation of three shadowy figures, composed mainly of cracked plaques and crushed chunks of colored glass melted directly onto a white pane...
...soothing effects. His subjects are full of ferocity and strain. He likes best painting roots, insects, husks, stumps, and most of all, thorns, isolating and enlarging them in his canvases as if he were painting monumental portraits. Beginning with a sketch from nature, Sutherland transforms it into a half-abstract reconstruction of a half-recognizable object...