Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...axis of his work, the climax and culmination, both literally and figuratively, of his polyphonic genius, The Art of the Fugue. The first concert, as if in preparation, had featured The Musical Offering, whose ten canons and gigantic six voice fugue might be considered a complement to Bach's abstract on polyphony...
...recording his joys and sorrows, his struggle for existence, his encounters, good and evil, man has used words, music, paint, stone, steel, film. The U.S. Bureau of the Census uses numbers. Last week it issued its 75th Anniversary edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a volume which embraces the raw material of American drama. Some ore from this 1,056-page mine...
...make an intriguing chapter in U.S. art. The liveliness and evanescent loveliness of Dove's efforts are demonstrated this week by a retrospective show at Cornell University's White Museum of Art in Ithaca, N.Y. The exhibition proves him to have been an early source of the abstract expressionism which has now engulfed the nation. Dove was painting emotion-charged abstractions as early...
...display were photos and models of recently built churches (more than 800 French churches were destroyed or damaged in World War II), stained glass, chalices, monstrances and vestments, and paintings and statues which ranged from the representational to the altogether abstract. Perhaps the most impressive of the lot was an austere Crucifix by Ponomarew Szekely, in which Christ was symbolized by no more than an abstract pattern carved into, and subtly complementing, the face of the Cross. But the majority of the works on exhibition proved to be as dour as St.-Sulpice was sweet. In struggling to be different...
...have to work from imagination. It was lucky for me that I left Italy-but to do what I have done since, I had to have all that nature first." Even in his Italian days, however, Escher had a passion for patterns. Then the abstract mosaics in Spain's Alhambra suggested to him the possibility of combining tight, flat patterns with illusions of spatial depth, and he has been drawing elaborate illusions ever since. "All my works," Escher says mildly, "are games. Serious games...