Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elaine de Kooning, the amicably separated wife of the famous Willem de Kooning, is an abstract expressionist to whom portraits "have always been a passion." Her pictures are hardly the sort that a board of directors would buy to put in a frame marked, "Our Founder...
...works in broad strokes, so swiftly that she can finish even a group portrait within a couple of hours. She relies almost as much on pure intuition in portraits as in her abstract expressionist work. "If I paint fast, the painting becomes unconscious, almost as if someone else was doing the painting and I the manual labor...
...beginning a portrait, she may, as any abstract expressionist might, start anywhere-the feet, the head, even the background. What she is after is not an exact likeness "like the right kind of nose, but rather, character resemblance." As she explains it: when someone sees a familiar person in a flash of light, he does not recognize the person feature by feature but by the total impression, the bearing, silhouette, posture or some dominating characteristic. In her portrait of Art Critic Frank O'Hara, on view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery last week, the face is painted...
...panelists, both self-styled conservatives, made a heroic effort last night to disagree on the issue of world federalism. But they did not get beyond an abstract discussion of whether a world federation was desirable...
...Miles Davis defected with his discovery of the "interlude," a four-or eight-bar figure laced into a song between phrases. Davis sometimes plays one dominant chord throughout a 16-bar interlude, making only rhythmic variations. Elvin Jones, the most richly inventive of the modern drummers, plays highly abstract polyrhythms that leave the old eight-to-the-bar style of jazz drumming far behind...