Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rebelle" depicts an abstract concept--rebellion. One black arm reaches high over the head of a figure not recognizably human. The other arm seems atrophied, dwarf-size. There is one red eye in the center of the face: a favorite Surrealist technical device symolizing both inner and outer vision. "La Fronde" harks back to the theories of Sigmund Freud, one of the great heroes of the founder of the Surrealist movement. A person with a tiny head and huge, bloated body curls around in an endless, crazy, frightened somersault--a Freudian might see it as a picture of someone...
...have had the strongest impact on American life. Both, in other words, tell history-and that's where they can meet." Sa dik also believes that TIME's covers are contributing to a revival of portraiture. "In the first decade of the 20th century, art went abstract, and representational portraiture became declasse," he explains...
...much distance as possible between itself and the ultra-leftist "criminals." Arguing that a surrender to the terrorists would lead to more violence and civil war, Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer told a party youth congress in Florence: "We must be inflexible not because of a cold and abstract 'reason of state,' but because, if we yield, the democratic institutions would enter into a suicidal logic...
...also true that he has a great deal beyond star power to offer in return. Edward Villella is almost retired now, and there has been no true replacement for either his dramatic, robust presence in Prodigal Son and Harlequinade or for the wit he brought to essentially abstract works like Rubies. Baryshnikov may well be just the man for these ballets and several others−Symphony in Three Movements, Stars and Stripes. The true suspense lies in what Mr. B will create...
...subject matter of the paintings is usually fairly unimportant. Sometimes, however, the titles of the works give away Davis's intent and lead the viewer to play a guessing game to figure out how the abstractions represent what the title suggests. For instance, the mural Davis did for a studio in the Municipal Broadcasting Company looks at first like nothing more than a busy arrangement of abstract designs and bright colors. But, with a little imagination the viewer can make out forms that suggest radio towers, musical instruments and sound waves, and pretty soon, the whole painting begins to pulse...