Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week and next, there will be, in the entrance hall of the Robinson architecture building, a most absorbing display of creative work called by its creater "abstractions." Remarkable to those unfamiliar with art, and possibly a little bowlldering to the real art-lover, those abstract delineations of literal and emotional ideas, set in color upon paper should interest everyone up to the most insensitive avoider of art galleries...
...divides his work into three types: first, those sketches which have been done with reference to something real. These may almost be classed as impressionistic pieces. Second, there are the purely abstract drawings which have been created solely from the emotional reactions of the author. Third, there are examples of pure designs, geometrical and otherwise, which have been done more for decorative purposes than any other...
...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
...left, as one enters Robinson, is a group of drawings which may be classified under the second type, namely, emotional reactions of the artist set down on paper. Mr. Lougee argues that, if certain kinds of abstract music can arouse a person emotionally, then abstract renditions of light and shade can achieve the same effect. He says frankly that these are but visual experiments, yet, his reactions to Handel's music, for one, set on paper as the essence of great, soaring flames beneath Gothic arches, succeed in conveying some kind of emotional stimulus to the onlooker...
...heard of who refused to contribute because an enemy was represented, and painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club to Royal Castle, Sweden, Early Morning. Most puzzling title would have been S. Stake's Chrycenthemen if his canvas had not depicted a recognizable flower...