Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimniished in stature. The influence is never one-sided; no character is able to exercise total control over another. Instead, each scene is built on this multiple influence and resemblance, and all characters' appearances change according to their partners. They thus become less themselves--and, in a way, more abstract beings, whose forms echo those of other people. The firm identity that would result from one-way power over all else is softened by a complex view of identity which depends upon all people's being soical...
...been vehemently praised and just as savagely dissected in art magazines, while remaining relatively unappreciated by the general museum going public. The reason is that Noland's paintings, from the time he first began to attract attention with his "target" canvases of 1957, have remained icily symmetrical, uncompromisingly abstract, and thus seemingly impersonal. The debate has raged over whether (as his foes charged) they are merely decorative, or whether (as his friends claimed) they are simply so difficult that most people do not bother to grapple with them...
...most interesting thing about his painting is the way in which it "liberates color." The son of a pathologist, he was educated at Black Mountain College, where he studied under another symphonist of structured color, Josef Albers. He became disenchanted with the way in which second-generation Abstract Expressionists were covering their canvases with empty, bombastic gestures. The trouble, he decided, was that they were using their brushes to draw, and "drawing contains assumptions of what you are painting about. It has to do with identifying things, with graphic representation...
...posters of the Strike Artists' Co-operative, especially the more abstract ones, are high art in its most self-justifying sense. That is, they make the walls they're pasted on better to look at, and they lift human participation in the strike out of pure rhetoric...
...anyone who comes in with an idea is shown how to make his own and allowed to do it), a few are exceptionally magnificent and approach the best work produced by a whole country full of screaming leftists in France last Mai. There is the "on strike abstract" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #4), which is a print that was originally a woodcut and was adapted to silk-screen for reproduction. Its use of a circular figure makes it the most suggestive of the strike workshop's designs...