Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rational and sophisticated age, the devil and hell have become very complicated. The true faith is capitalism. Its priests are lawyers and economists. The devil consists of an abstract man called a demagogue." Last year's defeat of Supreme Court reorganization constituted "a way of taking away from a great popular majority the fruits of their recent victory at the polls." The effect of anti-trust laws has been "to promote the growth of great industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels...
Manhattan's Fine Arts building on 57th Street has been hallowed for years by the conservative exhibits of the National Academy of Design. Last week it was baptized in extremism by the first pontifical show ever held of U. S. abstract art. The showrooms were filled with 150 constructions, ranging from an arrangement of amoeba shapes, wires and an electric headlight, to round and oval salad bowls stuck on a chaste grey background. They were the work of some 50 members of the American Abstract Artists, a two-year-old and growing group which takes itself very seriously...
...Indian Concretion (see cut) by tall, silent, Socialite George L. K. Morris, whose inspiration for this pattern of rose, purple, black, green and orange forms came from objects in the Museum of the American Indian. Thoughtful critics believe that simple designs of this character hold the most promise for abstract art in the U. S. To the artist an abstraction may be either child's play with pretty shapes or a highly organized intellectual design. To the spectator it is decoration-at best, pure and simple; at worst, impure and complex. Last week's spectators...
...more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than any of the impressive books in the series, Art Without Epoch gets at a new popularizing technique...
...Manhattaniles last week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed to be, but designed in dark tone patterns as abstract as anything surrealist. Against straight surrealism Artist Tal-Coät has set his face. Says he: "Surrealists and modern abstractionists run the risk of producing nothing but a series of colored symbols." Rumored to be a protege of Gertrude Stein's, he has in fact seen her only once...