Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught praising the show. One critic wryly suggested that to give money to the prizewinners was irrelevant, and should be immaterial: a symbolist should receive a symbolic prize, an impressionist should be given the impression of having received a prize, and an abstractionist should get something more abstract than cash. Yet many seasoned observers joined in being critical: the big show was, as far as the exhibitions were concerned, one of the tamest since the first Venice Biennale, in 1895. The great abstractionists had taken their place in history, and there seemed to be little new to generate a comparable...
...farmer's wife who thumbs the familiar Sears, Roebuck catalogue in quest of ginghams and gadgets is in for a surprise. Its pages will soon blossom with art, abstract and otherwise. Hired to gather original paintings, etchings, drawings and sculptures in the U.S. and abroad was Cinemactor Vincent Price, 51, epicure, art collector and ex-champ (in the art category) of TV's $64,000 Challenge. Yaleman ('33) Price will shop for items priced mostly under $100. and Sears will feature them in its 1,500-page catalogue. The venture, conceded one Searsman, is "highly exploratory...
YALE UNIVERSITY Josef Albers, abstract painter...
...left his homeland in 1919, "I find several writers whom I respect but also some others-such as Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell and J.P. Sartre-with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever." Besides, said he, "I do not believe in abstract discussions on the novel...
Though Bacon uses many of the instinctual techniques of the action painters, he does not like abstract art. "Man gets tired of decoration. Man is obsessed with himself." Few artists have more powerfully expressed on canvas the basic fact about man: that physically, at least, he is always dying, and that this is the great drama of his life. "I would like some day," says Bacon, "to trap a moment of life in its full violence, its full beauty. That would be the ultimate painting...