Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials of the Ministry of Culture. The New York company started with two relatively uncomplicated pieces-Balanchine's Serenade and Jerome Robbins' Interplay. But it remained for the third number on the program- the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper galleries, jammed with younger members of the audience, erupted in noise at the curtain. Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Bolshoi mainstay, remarked that although she was against abstract dancing in general...
SANE has tried, at great expense, to publicize the magnitude of possible disaster, and to exploit the consequent fear. This was not successful, because the very nature of thermonuclear catastrophe, in which whole cities and nations burst into flame, makes the horror impersonal. It becomes abstract, like the galloping leukemia rate...hardly relevant to any given individual...
Carl Nelson's recent drawings and paintings at the Mirski Gallery are a delightful demonstration that contemporary art's abstract style can be a great deal more than sufferable (which it rarely...
Nelson dribbles, splatters, dabs, and does other such things that most other abstract artists do to express their most inward thoughts--the thoughts, apparently, of blubbering babes. Yet Nelson conveys a meaning in his pictures, and a meaning far more complex than mere chaos and confusion...
Having seen the show, I agree that the paintings offer little beyond the purely decorative. In this respect, they are, to a varying degree, successful. This has been, however, characteristic of American art during the wane of abstract expressionism. It is insufficient cause for accusing Mr. Rutman of artistic impotence. To ask, "Why do such galleries exist?" on the basis of one displeasing show, is simple-minded provincialism...