Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among them: Abstract Expressionists Ferren, James Brooks. Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning; Sculptors David Smith and David Hare; Critics Alfred Frankfurter and Thomas Hess of Art News; Fine Arts Professors James S. Ackerman (Harvard) and Meyer Schapiro (Columbia...
...Service. The letter, which had been gathering signatures for weeks, bore 50 of the top names among today's artists, collectors, critics and art professors.* In hurt tones, it quoted a series of excerpts from Canaday's columns. He had written, for example, that "the bulk of abstract art in America has followed the course of least resistance and quickest profit," that it "allows exceptional tolerance for incompetence and deception," and that "critics and educators have been hoist with their own petard, sold down the river. We have been had." He said that abstract expressionism's disciples...
...that all painters stop work for a while and get other jobs-as domestic servants, for instance. On another occasion he reproduced a blob of pigment in the Times, then proceeded to subject it to the kind of analysis that an avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire on the prevalent gobbledygook, and by implication at least, it lumped all abstract expressionism together as one big hoax...
...that he sometimes seems to prefer to harangue in generalities than to come to grips with this or that particular artist. But this kind of knuckle-rapping is not always out of order with a group that can be as pretentious and self-righteous as some of the abstract expressionists. They in their turn have not been notable for their broad-mindedness toward their opposition-to which a legion of first-rate artists belong. "John Canaday," said Realist Edward Hopper in a letter to the Times this week, "is the best and most outspoken art critic the Times has ever...
...Fine Arts, and it seemed that artistically there was only one course for him to steer. Abstractionism was the powerful new movement, and some of its most famous practitioners-notably Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko-were his teachers. Hultberg has nothing but admiration for these men-but purely abstract painting...