Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frankly, I am not very good at planning things way in advance, of doing great studies about what should be done over a period of time, because it all seems very abstract. And I find it very easy to be lazy unless something compelling comes along and says, look, goddammit, you've got to act. And it's on your desk and that's it. Then the adrenaline begins running. You're sitting there in the Federal Reserve where you're supposed to do things that aren't all that popular. And to the extent that you have an aura...
...astronomical examples to instill basic concepts of math and science. Thus students may master the inverse-square law of physics by seeing that when a star doubles its distance from a certain point, it becomes one-quarter as bright. Why choose astronomy for this purpose? "It's not as abstract as chemistry and physics," says Shapiro, "and the sky is always there...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
...spent nearly all his working life in California; but the time is long past when he was regarded in New York as a California artist, with the slight condescension that implies. He is, quite simply, one of the best painters America has ever produced. He began as an abstract painter, making organic, landscape-like images in an idiom related to abstract expressionism; one of his inspirations, though in the end an adversary one, ! was Clyfford Still, a colleague at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late '40s. Then in 1956 he turned to representational painting...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...