Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan, where tradition is nine-tenths of art, Western-style abstractions are often greeted with polite blank stares. But last week in the seaside city of Kamakura, 25 miles from Tokyo, art lovers were treated to some modernism that no one wanted to ignore. On view were more than 130 aggressively new objects, everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces...
Many of the Carnegie exhibitors take the opposite approach, hastily dropping their brushes as soon as their work begins to resemble something. But in abstract art the effect's the thing, not the method-and, as the 39th Carnegie proves, a slew of puzzling, annoying, innocuous or pleasing effects can be achieved. Eight of the best are shown on the following two pages...
...Germany's Fritz Winter is as wild as Britain's Nicholson is mild. Yet the apparent boldness of Winter's Elevation rests on brushwork as fluent and as decisive as that of Chinese calligraphers. He is a leading figure in the expressionistic, anti-geometrical wing of abstract...
...Jiro Yoshihara's Japanese Sunday argues for the universality, if not the naturalness, of the abstract language: his melancholy picture looks extraordinarily like the work of Manhattan's Willem de Kooning, which Yoshihara has never seen...
...conviction: some of the best of the modernists are edging away from abstract designs and are beginning to rediscover the human frame. In so doing, he believes, mid-century artists are trending back toward Rodin-and the century's early spirit-after a long spell of sculpture-as-geometry. In demonstration of his idea, Ritchie has assembled a remarkable exhibit of 103 pieces of 20th century sculpture and put it on display in the Philadelphia Museum...