Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lichtenstein is a master of the economic image. During World War II, he made maps from aerial photographs, a job that required a kind of graphic distillation. This visual training has served him well, especially in his many paintings that have tersely targeted various artistic styles, including Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and now his new Chinese landscapes. These paintings exemplify visual frugality and can be read almost as mathematical equations, the sum of two disparate styles based on the following questions. First, how little information is required to make a Chinese landscape? And second, how little information is required...
Arshile Gorky, an Armenian refugee who settled in Watertown, was an abstract impressionist painter and studied at the Boston New School of Design...
...inevitable flip side for the public. Calls for democracy, individual freedom and civil rights risk being labeled "uncooperative" or "subversion" to smooth transition, because it seeks to bring the whole issue of "One Country, Two Systems" and self-government into practical, negociable terms as opposed to the more abstract talk in earlier years...
...unlikely. What is intended by "belong?" Are we to really believe that the all the people of the United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants...
...paintings depict scenes such as the Amazon River and Galapagos Islands and concepts such as social injustice in abstract form...