Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAINTER by Duard G. Slattery, illustrated by Sanford McGrail (Lion; $4.50). Taken directly from the 1960 Academy Award-winning short, the book depicts an abstract artist who throws paint on a large canvas, then slices it up for sale. As much fun as the movie...
...places has always been the Art Exhibition; there it is produced by so-called sculptors working with the tools of wreckers, building crankshaft cretins of stainless steel, zen stereos, polystyrene stinkbirds, objects trouves in latrines, cannon balls, canned balls. There we admire the gabinetti wall-patterns of so-called abstract artists, Freudian surrealism, roric smudges and Rorschach blots, all of it as corny in its own right as the academic 'September Morns' and 'Florentine Flowergirls' of half a century...
...first piece installed in the Adams House Library is an oil painting by abstract-expressionist Bernard Dufford (1922-1956) entitled "Composition...
Reaction to the colorful, abstract painting in the conservative House library has been generally favorable said Schwartz. "And the charge that the painting is out of context is absolutely true. We want it to be noticed so we planned it that...
...latest work (see color opposite) is a highly sophisticated summation of all the major developments of his previous styles. Still present are the whiplash strokes and splatter that were his trademark in the mid-1940s when the cantankerous immigrant Dutchman, onetime housepainter and WPA artist, was helping to establish abstract expressionism. In the early 1950s, he had devoted himself to a bloodthirsty series of darkly lurid women totems (among them, Marilyn Monroe). No sooner had his women gained acceptance than he switched again, to abstract landscapes, shown as if glimpsed from some speeding auto. In the 1960s he returned...