Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through Nov. 21: "Rothko's Harvard Murals." Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University...
...things quickly go downhill. Phife doesn't have the depth to pull off the downbeat "8 Million Stories." And for someone who calls himself "The Abstract Poet," Q-Tip is awfully descriptive and boring on tracks like "Sucka Nigga" and "Midnight...
Sackler Museum. Through Jan. 23: "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition." A survey of Buddhist art from the 8th through the 18th centuries, emphasizing works from China, Korea and Japan but also including ones from Nepal and Tibet. Through Nov. 21: "Rothko's Harvard Murals." Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University...
...that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith in the future; it does not capture the reader's imagination. Colwin...
Instead he turned to incongruous subjects that didn't fit his achieved style: huge versions of Abstract Expressionist brushstrokes, perversely rendered in flat color and Benday dots; or, most successfully, mirrors. The Mirror paintings of 1969-72 remain entrancing because of all Lichtenstein's later work, they are the only ones in which his now cleaned-up techniques allowed for a degree of mystery and ambiguity: they are perfect and icy, and reflect nothing but themselves -- a proleptic comment on his own future work...