Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spine-chilling battle must, along with the shower sequence in Psycho and the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin, be considered a supreme example of classical montage. Welles confounds one's normal sense of scene and over-all geography by employing sets and backgrounds more evocative than specific, more abstract than representative. John Gielgud, as the dying King, gives his best screen performance in this revolutionary film...
...Abstraction is the dominant mode in the U.S. right now and accounts for approximately 50% of the paintings at the Whitney. How varied nonobjectiveness can be is illustrated by the op grids of Cleveland's Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold, and the sheet of lacquered aluminum from Los Angeles' Billy Al Bengston (representative of what one Whitney curator dubbed California's "finish fetish"). But abstraction as an end in itself is on the wane. Artists everywhere are tending to combine it with figurative elements, or give their abstractions...
Paving the Way. The growing mass audience has been prepared for change and experiment both by life and art. It has seen-and accepted-the questioning of moral traditions, the demythologizing of ideals, the pulverizing of esthetic principles in abstract painting, atonal music and the experimental novel. Beyond that, oddly enough, younger moviemen credit television with a major role in paving the way for acceptance of the new in films...
Find the right sport to hang a fragile abstract painting (18 x 18) against a wall, out of direct sunlight, not in a dining hall. It must be in a Harvard building, in a secure public place, other than the Carpenter Center Auditorium or Student Lounge at William James. Suitable prize. Henry Berg. x2378...
...Chicago barber, who graduated from the Chicago Art Institute's school in 1957, studied in Italy, and has in the past five years been hailed as one of the Midwest's most successful sculptors. Hunt dislikes being typed, dislikes having his work classified as either abstract or figurative, dislikes even having it pinned down as either "large" or "small." All that he is prepared to concede is that he spends at least eight hours a day pounding, twisting and welding together the sheets and found scraps of steel, aluminum, chrome, tin and copper that jam to overflowing...