Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child's umbrella, a braid of auburn hair and a number of hairpins twisted to form a human face. There were in addition, books, prints and paintings ranging from the 18th to the 20th Century, from Pieter Bruegel to contemporary Peter Blume. Having done its best to explain abstract art to the U. S. public last spring (TIME, March 9), the Museum of Modern Art was now attempting to explain another exotic movement with an equally important show broadly titled Exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, or Art of the Marvelous and Fantastic...
...been content to be the silent receptacle of many echoes . . . are perhaps yet serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures and statues as objects devoid of meaning, sufficient unto themselves. Surrealist art is still based on reproduction, one reason that its ablest exponents cling to the finicky technique...
...Painter Matisse who coined the name "Cubist" for the angular painting of his rival. At the Museum of Living Art, pretentious name for the important collection of modern painting that public-spirited Albert Eugene Gallatin has presented to New York University, there appeared The Three Musicians,* a semi-abstract painting of three masked figures, two in motley, one in a monk's cowl, seated on a bench playing a violin, clarinet and accordion. Formerly in the Reber Collection in Switzerland, it is the most important Picasso decoration to reach the U. S. in many years...
Correctly he says that an education should sharpen the wits and discipline reasoning. Good intellectual habits are established by studying logic and mathematics, but the same mental exercises come from a workout with other and more valuable subjects. Chemistry and Physics train the mind exactly as do abstract problems, and they in themselves are useful to know. As Mr. Conant stated at the Tercentenary, colleges must find "the modern equivalent of the older educational disciplines...
Although A-to-Baggage, as the editors point out, is composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed...