Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting to note that the number of outraged letters you are receiving on abstract impressionist art is increasing. Why can't the general public recognize that we are never again going back to painting like Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens-or even to Watteau, Poussin and Renoir? I commend you heartily on your display of contemporary art, but let's tell your readers the startling fact that it is here to stay...
...American abstract expressionist painting "is not likely to be rubbed out." It just does not exist. That stuff is an effort to paint, which is frustrated by robot ethics-America's interpretation of what culture is. America has no human culture whatsoever...
...Marshall reviewed the legal history of the case. The N.A.A.C.P., he said, sought only one thing: protection of the right of seven Negro children to stay on at Little Rock's Central High School. "The rights we are seeking protection for are not rights that are in the abstract," said Counselor Marshall. "The rights we seek are rights that have been recognized by the federal courts." Taking his cue from the Justice Department brief already filed, Marshall also urged the Supreme Court to go beyond the motion before it, to rule on Judge Lemley's original decision...
Grandma Moses must be itching to assemble the sullen-looking gang of leading abstract expressionists [Aug. 4] and blister their individualistic behinds...
...Napoule. Sponsored by the La Napoul( Art Foundation-Henry Clews Memorial the show, titled "American Realism in the Twentieth Century," is aimed at bringing Europe "another page of American art history." Said one U.S. cultural attaché in France: "At last we have something to show Europeans besides abstract blotches and curlicues...