Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...design, also by Burkle, is so strikingly minimalist that the walls seem like blank canvases. In fact, when Berenger’s friend Jean (Michael B. Hoagland ’07) throws up during his sickness, the green vomit becomes art as it drips down the wall in abstract expressionistic splendor...
This change never comes though; he simply rehashes the abstract rhyme-isms of Q-Tip or C.L. Smooth without the wit or the novelty. “I’m like a faucet, monopoly’s the object/There ain’t no way to cut this tap, you gotta get wet/Your head is throbbin’ and I ain’t said shit yet.” In fact, he never really does say anything. The chorus is a funky yet meaningless refrain: “We got the Hot-Hot Music, the Hot Music...
...Obviously what we’re doing now [to attract undergraduates] is not achieving what we’d like it to,” she said. On Thursday, Krieger also asked students how they envisioned the architecture of the new campus. Frank Gehry, known for his abstract architecture, is one of the planners consulting on the new campus. A graphic of a new undergraduate House at the Harvard in Allston room shows a set of Matheresque blocks in a circle, labeled as a “residential village.” Students were not enthusiastic about that possibility, noting...
...taken the lives of over three million people in the past year. Meanwhile, an estimated five million people contracted HIV, swelling the ranks of those currently living with the disease to 40 million. Whether these grim figures may be familiar or new to you, they inevitably remain too abstract to convey the destruction wrought by the disease in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world. Though certainly jarring, the figures fail to describe both the demographics of the disease and the efforts being undertaken to combat...
...conglomeration of gently swaying silicone hangs delicately suspended from the ceiling. “This deals with detachment from the body; understanding the body exists in the physical, but also in other ways,” Ofri Gilan, a second year GSD student, explains. The sculpture itself is very abstract; Gilan has created the body only as a shadow, carefully orchestrating the lighting to project the image of a woman’s figure behind the orange silicone mass. Silicone is a common medium in the Carpenter Center’s second floor studio: Colorful spaghetti-like heaps...