Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned to the Statistical Abstract. Working late nights to the relentless sounds of Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage," I compiled a portrait of the average American couple...
...more powerful artist (which is not at all to denigrate the brilliant gifts of Popova). His show was seen in Moscow, Amsterdam, Washington and Los Angeles before arriving in New York, but it has special resonance in Manhattan because of the city's history as a forcing bed of abstract art. No single artist "invented" abstraction, but Malevich was certainly one of the first to set forth its claims as a visual language. It was Malevich who did for abstract painting what Picasso, in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, did for the figure. His emblematic work (for Americans) was White Square...
This exhibit consists mainly of large scale abstract paintings, including several diptychs. In them, Bush explores color and paint texture, and the result is a lively and captivating compilation. A number of these pieces have been displayed individually at the Triptych Student Gallery over the past year. But the viewer may better appreciate Bush's craft here, because when several of her works are presented together one can grasp their relation to each other...
Collected on the basis of common sexual orientation, the pieces share little else. The works displayed range in medium from sculpture to painting, weaving to photography, presenting more than 90 women artists. While the majority highlight women and relations between them, there are also landscapes, abstract sculptures and documentary pieces, to name...
...civil war. Gaudi's drawings and plaster models went up in flames, but molds and photographs survived. Architect Jordi Bonet, who supervises the construction budget, says the opponents are "people who don't want a church as the emblem of our city." Moreover, Subirachs has publicly scorned the abstract artists favored by city hall in its Olympic building binge -- and the disdain is mutual. Says poet Joan Brossa: "Gaudi was avant-garde, but Subirachs is retro-garde...