Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy Mother, and a Family of Three, one of whom delightfully defied gravity in its mother's arms. In stone, he shaped a tender and telling Day Dreamer in white alabaster, a dark and moving image of Naomi and Ruth in lithium stone, a deeply sensual, semi-abstract Reflection in pink alabaster. In bronze, he achieved a rare sense of movement with his Dancing Mother. Happy Baby and Unicyclist. Whimsical and witty, all had the vigor and balance of circus performers; each in its own way celebrated Sculptor Gross's feeling for the beauty...
PAINTING: "Americans buy French paintings, but don't paint themselves. Without Americans, abstract painting would have died long...
...underlying unity of Oriental religions. By his controlled use of sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom on an aged plum tree." Then he exclaimed in admiration: "Tessai became a dragon...
...Starter. In Albuquerque, the Bureau of Business Research at the University of New Mexico was asked by a schoolteacher for "fact sheets presenting information on the various schools of painting, including realistic, middle-of-the-road, abstract, nonobjective and fantastic...
...term "experimental theater" could use some amplification, and the plays presented at the Yale festival will serve, if not as the basis for a definition, at least as indicators of how this school of drama looks and sounds. For one thing, experimental plays often are topheavy with abstract ideas. Harvard's contribution to the festival, Jean Genet's Death-watch, and the Wellesley production of a dismal little propaganda piece by Bertolt Brecht entitled Exception and the Rule, served to illustrate the experimental playwrights' reliance on ideology...