Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JACKSON POLLOCK, who once flirted with form in his abstract paintings, then rejected it for pure drippings from a paint can, now seems to be swinging slowly back to brush & palette art. In five of his 14 new canvases there are signs of brush work, and in four of them there is a bow to form: a writhing, half-kneeling woman, a grotesque head, a suggestion of an animal. The rest is mostly recognizable Pollock: rich blots and dribbles of free-running color...
...told, 154 artists from 24 states were represented, and most of them seemed to be doing just what they have been doing ever since the war: abstract paintings in all sizes, shapes and colors. The work bore such titles as Sleeper No. 2, Third Theme, 47, Vibration and Rapt at Rappaport's. The color patterns varied from shades of Tabasco red to jellyfish grey; some were done as geometrical designs, others as waving, leaflike forms, weird blotches of black & white, or blazing skyrockets of paint on canvas...
Painter Mullican has spent half his young life searching for a style. He tried everything from printmaking to wildly abstract human figures, but it was the war and his 21 months as an Army topographer in the Pacific that showed him what he was looking for. Today, he builds his strange and wonderful landscapes by laying on row after row of thin, radiating lines in red, yellow and brown paint with the blunt edge of a knife. He works until the ridges seem to catch and reflect the light, like fine embroidery done in metallic thread, and then...
...capacity crowd in Rindge Tech High School auditorium witnessed an abstract, sometimes violent, but always lively argument between Norman Thomas, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy...
Shirley-san and Isamu-san made a good team. Living in a 200-year-old, thatched-roof farmhouse near Tokyo, Noguchi started spreading his modern ideas with lots of help from his wife. Earlier, he had turned out abstract designs for the railings on two new bridges for Hiroshima: one was a sweeping single line with a half sphere rising at each end; the other, shaped like a long, low boat. In both, Noguchi wanted to symbolize the city leaving the past for a new and better life. But the symbolism was lost on most Japanese. "The A-bomb," said...