Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged that Christians in Communist countries come to terms with the new regimes. The churches should accept restrictions on them as "penance," protesting only when some really flagrant state violation of their rights as Christians occurs. As for ideology: "The Church can never defend and proclaim-or even attack-abstract norms, ideals, historical laws and sociopolitical ideologies as such ... It cannot make itself responsible either for any ism or for rejecting...
From the start, Statsinger's explorations were in odd techniques. As a student, she made hundreds of "photograms" by arranging bits of string and other objects on sheets of film, exposing the film to the light, and printing the abstract result. She also learned the ancient craft of designing batik, the stuff sarongs are made of. Echoes of the South Seas. The Stat-singer drawings on exhibition last week seemed as relaxed in composition as her "photograms" had been, and the floating shapes that filled them echoed, abstractly, carved idols and amulets of the South Seas. But the atmosphere...
...smaller pictures-a snarl of black on a red canvas and a few black splashes on a white canvas-show that when the shouter lowers his voice, he also lowers his standards; they are simply chic. But as a whole the exhibition proves that Mathieu is as powerful an abstract expressionist as Manhattan's own Willem de Kooning...
Busy Gods. To compensate for the loss, Americans "set about peopling their wilderness with folk gods from their own history," and these gods have been constantly invoked and manipulated to suit present convenience. "Americans," says Woodward, "use their history as a substitute for political theory . . ." Instead of abstract principles, "we have sought our values, the meaning of our experience and a chart for the future in our history. The assumption has always been that there is in our past a sort of proto-American theory that, if properly understood, will prove adequate to all exigencies...
...cannot be classified by school, neither can Gonzalez be pigeon holed according to subject matter or media (he uses oils, casein and watercolors). Says he: "Subject matter is unimportant. It is what you do with it that counts . . . I do not try to imitate nature but try to abstract from it what will serve to express a philosophy...