Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admittedly, the connection between Caravaggio's action-packed religious paintings and the geometric day-glo of Stella's enormous abstract works is pretty hard to see at first glance. But there is a connection, and you don't have to take my word for it. Stella himself has devoted 167 richly illustrated pages to drawing...
...what those lines and curves are all about. At one time, a decent knowledge of classical mythology and the Bible was enough to understand what a painter was up to. Today, even an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary art can fail to inform the art-hungry heiress what her new Abstract Expressionist masterpiece is supposed to express...
Before your exam, check out these walls. They're covered with large, brightly colored paintings full of geometric shapes. And from the ceiling hang abstract mobiles of red, blue, and green--all created by this unassuming 28-year employee of Harvard...
...easel, Matthews has painted in many styles, ranging from figurative portraits to Jackson Pollack gesture paintings. But in the past fews, years he's been working on abstract investigations of the square, some of which hang on the stockroom walls. "What brought about the geometrical painting was a color theory course I took at the Art Institute. You can go on forever with this work," he says...
...Monsignor, you have been dealing with the barrio people for so long, can you tell me?" she asked. "Do you think they know that the main cause of their suffering is Marcos? Do they realize and believe that the opposition can give them a better life? Can they understand abstract concepts like truth, justice and freedom...