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...being caused by election-year politics in the U.S. Explained British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, obviously trying to soften the seeming rebuke to Carter: "We really are trying to supplement what the U.S. is doing, to do something very, very positive-to stop talking just in a few abstract terms and try to clothe those terms with practical reality. And we'll do it, as always, in partnership...
...shade are in the universe, but the cube structure." transcends In and sum, the translates nature encompassing into ambition of Nevelson's work is to make a continuous surface so full, so engrossing and so minutely articulated with variety of detail that it can work as an abstract metaphor of nature itself...
Dubbed the "poet's painter," Frankenthaler has been one of the leading figures in the second generation of abstract expressionist artists. Her "bleeding edge" techniques and pale, free-flowing colors have earned her a reputation as a constantly improvising but singular voice in modern art. "Her paintings have the quality of some delicate, nameless organism, which opens and closes almost imperceptibly beneath our gaze," one critic wrote...
...citation reads: Her influence as teacher and artist has beautifully refined the rough edges of abstract...
Picasso never painted an abstract picture in his life. His instinct for the real world was so strong that he probably would have produced something woman-shaped every time he took brush in hand. Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction, depending on such slender clues as a glass or a pipestem to pull them back to reality. As he moved forward, he found in collage a way of linking cubism back to the world. Collage, which simply means gluing, brought fragments of modern life?newspaper headlines, printed labels?directly into the painting...