Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horror. Wildenstein is not a man without prejudices. He once owned 250 Picassos,but he got rid of them because he could not stand the way the world's greatest living painter paints. As for today's abstractionists, "they have created horrors. There is no individuality in abstract art. It is all a monumental error...
...West's most chilling story, a man is arrested for hitchhiking in the town of Chanceyville, Ga. The poor fellow has two strikes against him: not only is he a New Yorker with an Italian name; he is an abstract artist to boot. When he can not pay the fine, the beefy sheriff orders him to draw obscene nudes. When he finishes, the sheriff stops drooling, smashes all the bones in the artist's hands and knocks him senseless. Says the indignant sheriff: "That'll teach them bastards to mess around Chanceyville gals...
...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...
...break the tether of traditionalism and started to experiment in earnest with paintings like Romantic Landscape (see color). In 1912, while living in Germany, Kandinsky reached a point of no return. From there on, he was committed to expressing a world of darting lines, moiling colors and nightmare shapes. Abstract expressionism, which went on to produce many other and better painters, was born on his palette...
...into modern terms, but to illuminate a modern hero's death with myths. Updike slights Prometheus, and his book surfers. The reader learns little more than that Peter is bright, has psoriasis (the vulture's peck, presumably), and that as an adult he is a second-rate abstract painter with a Negro mistress...