Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underlining basic science, there is always the danger that the student will be unable to bridge the gap between principle and practice. M.I.T.'s faculty members are endlessly ingenious in devising ways to demonstrate actual use for the abstract. The result: a sort of do-it-your self system of science teaching...
...after four years he still had not found himself. "Even then. I was seeking what Rimbaud seemed to have found: 'New forms that the inventions of the unknown demand.' " So. in 1953. he settled in Paris in a large studio on the Left Bank. There, his present abstract-expressionist style of painting began to emerge...
...Abstract & Atonal. Two of the forces that might be counted on to reduce anxiety in U.S. life ? the artists and the social scientists ? are contributing to it. In abstract painting and atonal music, the modern artist has largely destroyed rec ognizable reality, creating a world in which he is master because it is incom prehensible to others: he is alone, but at least he is boss. In literature and drama, he has just moved through a long period of writing psychiatric case histories, and is now experimenting with improvised works that seek to destroy the barrier between audience...
Whether realistic or abstract, sculpture is essentially form that has been frozen: the trick is to make the form throb with life. The abstract constructions that lined the walls of Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last week gave the illusion in their own ways. One piece was a swirl that seemed to spill from the ceiling; another was a maze of darting shafts (see color opposite). Some of the sculptures, when touched, danced like plants swaying under water; others, when plucked, sang like a forest in the wind. Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 46, is only one of many artists...
Like many abstract painters, Bertoia sees the universe as one great cup of energy. He is fascinated by the thought of "particles shooting through space," and the spiky mesh shown in color is his conception of the "track of these particles." Each wire had to be pulled separately through molten brass to give it a rough-textured coat. As wire after wire was welded into place, each tended to lose its identity. "The line," says Bertoia, "finally disappears and becomes a diffusion." In a sense, the sculpture has no beginning and no end. Though the particle tracks shoot...