Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project by Project. From the beginning, Brazilians could not help admiring Quadros' directness, his humor, his resistance to compromise, his un-Brazilian talent for chopping red tape. But he seemed to have no overall goals. Editorial writers questioned his ''unplanned and impetuous" administration. "Quadros distrusts abstract planning," answered a close adviser. "He prefers to build up a program project by project." The projects are beginning to take form...
...kill myself for artists. The hell of it is I hate them," muttered Copper Heiress Peggy Guggenheim, 63, as she reminisced about the many hungry artists she has subsidized over the years. Last week, as angry as ever, Patroness Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either...
...Manhattan viewers could see how magic Greene's ambiguity has been. His unearthly colors intrigue-not so much as color, but as shifting shadings of darkness and light. His forms seem to float by like changing clouds of steam, twisting into shapes that are now recognizable, now wholly abstract...
...until 1931, when he was 27, that he finally made up his mind to take up art seriously. In 1936, while the art of social protest seemed the noisiest thing around, Greene became head of a new little society called American Abstract Artists. His early work was geometrical, "rational, impersonal, almost mathematical"; but it did not stay that way for long. The geometry had a way of resembling a hard-edged landscape or interior. By the mid '40s, shredded bits of the human figure began to appear. The square and the rectangle had become a prison: "I wanted...
...Murchisons have enough money to live as they choose-and they choose to live well. John lives with his wife and four children in an immense English Tudor house on 200 acres outside Dallas, attended by squads of help and surrounded by a collection of abstract art. He drives to work in a Porsche 1600 (one of three family cars), but prefers to travel in a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza that he pilots himself. To house it, he built a private airport two miles from his home -and, finding enough plane-owning neighbors around him, inevitably turned the airstrip into...