Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week 54 of Rothko's paintings were on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showing 15 years of the development of a man who is one of the top half-dozen abstract painters in the U.S.-one who has created a personal idiom that pleases the initiated but to the others dramatizes some of the limitations of abstractionism. In canvas after canvas, glowing rectangles of color float over other rectangles. Each canvas is a study in contradiction: everything seems in shimmering motion, but nothing moves at all. The paintings offer windows looking out on blind...
...nearly two decades, critics have called Jacob Lawrence, 43, "the top U.S. Negro painter"-a race-conscious title that tends to blur his individual style. While the dominant school of abstract art has steadily fled the image, Lawrence goes right on telling simple, straightforward stories. If any artist or style ever influenced him, he cannot quite pin down who or what or when. He has always been his own man, and his very lack of complexity makes him something of a puzzle. "Painting is like handwriting," he says. "Every person has his own style, and my style is just something...
...French New Wave, Breathless would seem to offer little to the average star-struck spectator-it features a Hollywood reject (Jean Seberg) and a yam-nosed anonymity (Jean-Paul Belmondo). What's more, it asks the moviegoer to spend 89 minutes sitting still for a jaggedly abstract piece of visual music that is often about as easy to watch as Schoenberg is to listen to. Then why, in the last year, has this picture done a sellout business all over France? Belmondo explains some of the excitement. A ferally magnetic young animal, he is now being called "the male...
...Godard does not pose his philosophical questions very seriously; he seems chiefly concerned with developing an abstract art of cinema, in which time and space are handled as elements in a four-dimensional collage. Camera and performers, moving at random and simultaneously, create the cubistic sense of evolving relativity. Foregrounds and backgrounds engage in a characteristically cubistic dialogue of planes. Similarly, noises and images, words and actions conflict or collaborate in amusing, revealing or intentionally meaningless ways. At one point the screen goes black in broad daylight while the characters go on talking-they are really in the dark...
Thirdly, although largely in courses like philosophy, where discussion is naturally fairly extensive, the prisoners tend to turn abstract discussions, or discussion of principle, back toward the problems of prison life of their own pre-conceptions. Discussion under these conditions often slips into "ruts" and becomes repetitive from class to class...