Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prying eyes, he also embarked on a risky task: rescuing art that had been proscribed by the Stalinist regime. Although Stalin died in 1953, the fear that his rule instilled in his subjects lived long after him, and there was every chance that Savitsky - with his burgeoning collection of abstract and avant-garde pieces by the likes of Popova and Redko - would be denounced as a counterrevolutionary. He had to proceed with extreme discretion, but over time Savitsky amassed more than 50,000 pieces of Gulag-era art, tracking them down in hiding places all over the Soviet Union...
...they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this week. Seeing Arkley isn't as easy as his work makes it look. His distinctive "after-spray" outlines over fields of kinetic patterning and color constantly tempt the eye to shift focus; figurative becomes abstract and vice versa; painting and sculpture merge...
...While also physically draining and demanding of his time, involvement in “Polka” offers a different kind of challenge for Shee. Its decidedly abstract and modern style offers Shee something he’s had little contact with before...
...painting, so she turned her efforts elsewhere. Some artists take years to evolve their individual sensibility, but Chast was Chast from the very first cartoon she sold, which was titled "Little Things." It's the first cartoon in Theories of Everything, and it depicts, well, little things: tiny, humble, abstract doodles with nonsense names like tiv and spak and chent. When you look at "Little Things," you don't laugh. You experience some amused, melancholy, thoughtful emotion that is uniquely Chastian...
...worry that you've saved him only to introduce him to a much more abstract kind of misery? There were hordes of photographers documenting his arrival in England...