Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pocked with chisel marks, it successfully simulated the feathery plunge of the bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...
...only art form in which violence, bloodshed and death are palpable and unfeigned. It is the only art in which the artist deals actual death and risks actual death, as if a poet were called upon to scan his lines with his life . . . All arts, even the most abstract, are essentially creations to thrill. To allow man to participate in God's designs at one step removed from the anguish of living them...
...abstractionists turned out to be abstract in words as well as in paint. The more conservative painters, having less to account for, took a comfortably conservative tone. The best of the bunch, by & large, said the least. Some highlights...
...subject dear to his heart, is confronted with the request: 'Will you now give us seventy-five words on what you've just said?' " ¶ Georgia O'Keeffe spent only sev en well-chosen words in describing her latest painting - a starkly splen did, semi-abstract rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge (see cut) : "This is the Brooklyn Bridge...
...think of what it means. To the average citizen, culture is a handy catchall into which to dump the arts, education, plumbing, science and any other pursuits that seem to be elements of modern civilization. To some philosophers it plainly represents "an interest in, and some ability to manipulate, abstract ideas." Peers of the realm tend instinctively to see culture as "urbanity and civility"; the grubbing archeologist sees it in the shape of the potsherds and tibias that he digs up in Papua and the Tigris valley...