Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house painter. This fact greatly grieves the young school of muralists who have found their inspiration in Rivera and Orozco, their opportunity under WPA. Lately, however, a few architects and a few painters have had a happy, conciliatory thought. If modern architecture relies on the beauty of abstract forms, why should it not employ, for certain chaste effects, the painting of pure abstractionists...
...Public Works Administration began to build its biggest, most expensive ($13.500,000), most admirably planned housing project, in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn (TIME, April 18), Consulting Architect William Lescaze and Burgoyne Diller, head of the Federal Art Project's New York City mural division, decided to try abstract murals in the project's ten recreation rooms, each entrusted to a single artist. By last week, murals were installed in two rooms. Last week, blue-eyed Mr. Diller, harassed but proud, was finally sure enough of WPA's abstract murals to exhibit some of them with other...
...themselves where Freud stood as a writer, when his faithful disciple, Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, brought out a handy, 1,001-page collection of six of his major works. The demonstration was not quite fair to Freud. For Dr. Brill included as Freud's basic writing heavy, abstract works like his Totem and Taboo, which is an important contribution to psychoanalytic theory, but hard reading for laymen. He left out such Freudian classics as The Case of Miss Elisabeth R, and The Case of Miss Lucy R. These early works of Freud, simply and artfully written, revealing an extraordinary...
Many of Artist Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
...picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle requires its own three space coordinates. So to describe two particles six dimensions are needed; a description of ten particles require's 30 dimensions. That is too abstract for Dr. Einstein. He thinks four dimensions are enough...