Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serenity. Even as the futurist wave gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Henry Ford II. Before the show's sponsors were...
...before Lurçat" and "after Lurçat." Last week, as evidence of what Lurçat has done for the village, Aubusson had on view the most lavish display of local tapestries ever assembled: 550 brilliantly rich pieces in the full range of designs from representational to abstract by such artists as Gromaire, Dom Robert, Prassinos, Singier, Tourliere and, of course, Lurçat himself...
...jury was in effect saying: (1) most of the painting submitted was not good; (2) the prevailing style today is "abstract" or "non-representational"; (3) too many of the best local artists are still harboring grudges from previous years and refusing to submit...
Edgar Driscoll, art critic of the Boston Globe, suggested as a solution for next year that there be two juries, one for representational and one for abstract art, each in charge of picking half the paintings. One trouble with this idea is that a true artistic climate is not necessarily reflected by such an arbitrary 50-50 division. But a more serious objection arises from the fact that it is not always possible to relegate a painting to one or the other of the two categories. The work of many artists is semi-abstract or semi-representational; some...
...final paragraph of Taylor's reply was the most sensible and sane statement on the whole controversy: "My objection to the art, like the jury comment, is based on the fact that it reflects a declining aesthetic climate. The early 1950's saw the break-through of our native abstract pioneers into fresh realms of feeling; today that movement seems in a cul-de-sac in which imitation and repetition have momentarily taken the place of creative statement. If the art in the Festival has little to say, why blame the Festival because...