Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of all, a question of choice of subject matter. A purely abstract design I thought would not suffice her survive to be lived with for a length of time. It should have a meaning to help to retain the interest of the faculty, which is to dine in this room. So the theme became a sprouting, glaucous verdure, an image of the idea of growing. Green, as a soothing, quieting, and appetizing color. To contain enough variations towards more exciting yellow shades as well as towards cooler bluish tints. But green, as rich and juicy as possible without becoming...
...jury duty at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Show (TIME, Oct. 30), with a disappointed verdict on contemporary U.S. art: "It appears to be suffering from what I take to be a kind of measles which affects the young. So many of the young seem to have gone all abstract ... it is probably due to the passion for modern culture...
Hopper noted, however, that the Communist propaganda machine which promises immediate economic reforms runs at a tremendous advantage because it has "the ally, poverty." Meanwhile, the Western propaganda machine can spout only abstract concepts such as democracy, freedom, and the hope of material improvement...
Personal Opinion. To some delegates the welcoming speech sounded like an official blast at surrealist and abstract art. Not so, said conference officials: it should be interpreted as a strong recommendation against falling into extremes, but the Pope had mentioned no school of art by name. Moreover, his words had been those of a simple speech rather than an encyclical, and should therefore be considered as the Pope's personal opinion...
Enwonwu's ancestors carved for magic purposes, not for exhibition. They gave force to their whittled gods by using many of the tricks of modern art: violent distortion of figures into angular cubistic shapes, mingling of naturalistic features with wholly abstract ones, the surrealist shock-value of giving vaguely human figures some of the attributes of animals and birds. The results struck at least one art historian, Roger Fry, as "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made...