Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of an abstract idea," Coffey added."I want to be a different kind of leader than whatwe...
...ABSTRACT, IT'S AN IDEA THAT wins every popularity contest. A public- opinion poll recorded an 80% majority in favor of amending the Constitution to force a balanced federal budget. Bill Clinton had to twist every Democratic arm in sight to block passage of the 1994 version of such an amendment, and even then it failed to get through the Senate by only four votes. Now the Republican majorities in House and Senate have designated the amendment Resolution No. 1, putting it at the top of the agenda. The White House and its congressional allies have been reduced to guerrilla...
EVEN AMONG FAMOUS ARTISTS there are degrees of neglect. Nobody could call the Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline overlooked. Not when his pictures have sold for a million dollars and up. Not with his signature style recognizable in an eye blink, the black girderlike slashes on the white ground. But compared with Jackson Pollock, who has been a household word -- well, in some households anyway -- for the past quarter-century, Kline is positively obscure. It's like comparing Sal Mineo with James Dean. Both were in the movie Rebel Without a Cause, but only one of them car-smashed...
People who knew him in the '40s and '50s remember that Kline liked to talk about Gericault and Velazquez, about old silver and 18th century political cartoons, rather than the gaseous rodomontade of "tragic chaos" and "existential risk" that got loaded onto Abstract Expressionism by such artists as Barnett Newman and such critics as Harold Rosenberg. In short, he was very interested in style, a suspect idea then but one that his paintings are none the worse for raising. We can't see Kline the way the art world did 40 years ago, when critics wrote about his "desperate shriek...
...shot gesture. He would make them, mull over them, choose one and then, just like a 19th century painter enlarging a drawing through a grid, project it from an epidiascope onto the big canvas. As David Anfam remarks in his catalog introduction, "Kline upsets the narrative that Abstract Expressionism invites...