Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marisol Escobar-or Marisol, as she is known professionally-studied under the noted abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, and, she says dryly, "I painted like a Hofmann student." But though she learned much from her master, he was quickly supplanted by a series of happenstance influences that sent Marisol off on a strange and appealing tangent of her own. In a friend's house, for instance, she saw some small Mexican boxes filled with hand-carved painted figures, and she was enchanted. In another house, she was drawn to an old-fashioned coffee grinder that had the shape...
hard edge is the phrase for painters who prefer a defined line to splatter and splash. But it's still abstract...
Manhattan's revamped Jewish Museum this week opens an instructive show called "Toward a New Abstraction," with 47 works by nine of these artists. At first glance, the hard-edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children...
...Buck-minster Fuller. Herbert Bayer. Josef Albers. Bradbury Thompson and Frasconi -were brought to the capital for a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to learn the limitations of the department's presses. They submitted a total of 14 entries, all designs intended to put the abstract theme of science in accurate and artistic context. To Winner Frasconi, chosen by a three-man committee after four hours of deliberation, goes not only an additional $500 but also the distinction of seeing his work reprinted 120 million times next fall; for a man best known as a printmaker...
...more voluntary form healthy-mindedness becomes an abstract way of conceiving things as good. It deliberately rejects evil from its perceptual field, holding the good as the essential aspect of being. James maintains that the emotional state of happiness carries with it blindness and insensibility to opposing facts as an instinctive device of self-protection. Yet he recognizes that healthy-mindedness can be employed as a conscious religious policy, and he takes pains to give it a fair hearing...