Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although it must look organic, it must be abstract. If a house looks like mushrooms, they must be abstract mushrooms...
...Britain, the monarch is the symbol of this continuing legitimacy which persists through administrations which may vary greatly in direction and policy. The U.S. has a more abstract symbol that serves exactly the same purpose: the Constitution...
...PAINT? CALL ON THE GHOST ARTISTS. WE PAINT IT-YOU SIGN IT, read an advertisement in the Washington Post last week. Explaining further, the ad said that Ghost Artists were well qualified to turn out work in almost any manner: primitive ("Grandma Moses type"), impressionist, modern, cubist and abstract...
...apply his ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
...photography cannot be shown in any exhibit. Moholy-Nagy was primarily a great teacher, but his work in developing new types of photography is also outstanding. On display are some of his photograms, plates exposed without the aid of a camera. There are also vivid geometric abstractions in water color, and a construction in chrome and lucite. Another of Moholy-Nagy's innovations is a seeming monstrosity called a light machine. It is used to project abstract light images on a screen for the benefit of abstract motion pictures...