Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this blot, Dr. Holtzman sees a horned bat's face; "Baboons at play" is equally acceptable as a normal response. But such answers as "Reminds me of the Black Plague" are rated neurotic. Explains Holtzman: "This is an abstract association . . . an anxiety response." At the schizophrenic end of the scale the psychologist puts: "A woman's behind-pregnant, flying, you know." Most subjects agree with Holtzman: this blot reminds them of an enraged executive listening to two telephones. The response "Mud smeared on a church window" is moderately but definitely neurotic, says Holtzman, because it "shows strong hostility...
...similar type." Bats Abroad. The H.I.T. tester deals a card at a time, notes how many seconds it takes the subject to answer, then scores the response. Regardless of training, testers are almost certain to agree on classifying the content of the response as human, animal, anatomic, sexual or abstract...
Kirchner's Trio of 1954, for violin, cello and piano, a better work because it brings its various emotions together more skillfully. Its serenity is more abstract than the Sonata's and shares with the contrasting eruptive mood, a deep intensity; outbursts from the cello in the second movement resemble similar ones in the first, thereby connecting the two contrasting movements. The protracted development of this final movement is not at all a forced one, but unfortunately the performance brought it to an inconclusive ending. All the same, the three artists brought out well the work's great rhythmic activity...
...while he was a stonecutter for a sculptor; he got through the Depression with the help of the WPA, worked as a factory hand during World War II, eventually landed a job at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It was there that Park experimented with abstract expressionism...
...arrival at the school of Clyttord Still and later Mark Rothko were the catalysts in this conversion, but Park himself was already concerned with "big abstract ideals like vitality, energy, profundity warmth." His own abstractions, as his 'friend, Painter Elmer Bischoff, describes them, were "goopy, sensuous arrangements of forms," but ironically, Park never found in goopiness the freedom that other artists did. Instead of losing himself in his work, he became overly concerned with style and technique. "I was artificially putting together forms," he said. And so in 1950, Park painted a figurative picture called Kids on Bikes...