Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barzun's bugaboo is science-not just the Bomb, but all the works of science. The trouble began with Newton, whose mechanical laws of the universe reduced man to an abstraction. Later, Newton was abetted by Darwin, who said man was at the mercy of evolution, and Freud, who made man a prisoner of his instincts. According to Barzun, there are not two warring cultures, as set forth in C. P. Snow's famed thesis. The war is over and science has won. The humanities have succumbed. The spurious social sciences with their lifeless jargon dominate modern thought...
When Mondrian set about destroying space, he replaced it with the golden-section grillwork that formed the cornerstone for abstract art. With his friend Van Doesburg he founded the magazine De Stijl, and, as shown here, spread the gospel of color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. Jack Tworkov, 63, head of Yale's art school and old-line abstract expressionist, gets the retrospective once-over in an exhibition that begins with a 1948 Figure garbed in cubist subtleties, proceeds to the brilliant reds and blues that slash through his 1963 oils. Seventy paintings, collages, drawings. Through...
...grey, brown and blue paintings in Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery are intimate scenes: Mildred Lamar Hooking a Rug is as innocent as a colonial primitive; his children in a room or walking on the lawn are devoid of inward psychology or narrative in a marriage of abstract and realistic techniques. He achieves what he calls "an ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality...
Goodman, 28, art teacher at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art says: "What I want to do concerns more than just shapes, forms and colors with no relation to a subject. There wasn't enough life in abstract art for me." The life that he paints seems to have a pretty tenuous grip on itself. In a show of 23 recent works that opened last week in Manhattan's Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Goodman's three-panel Trilogy suggests a man who enters a closet and hangs himself. His realism is obtuse, his figures often secret sharers...