Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensemble work of high sheen, which is now expected on the American scene, along with dynamic soloistic virtuosity, which is not. Of the 18 works in its repertory only one (a restaging by Director Brian Macdonald of The Firebird) ranks as a classic standby. The other 17 range from abstract studies in pure motion to dance translations of contemporary headlines. In Stuart Hodes' Abyss, a pair of fragile lovers are attacked by three hoodlums; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a Dead Boy poignantly traces an adolescent's struggles against parental misunderstanding at home and the temptations...
Nearly 80 years after his death, Vincent Van Gogh still remains a startlingly modern artist. Psychologists continue to delight in analyzing the psychoses betrayed by his tormented whorls. Lovers of abstract expressionism find in his sulfurous palette a close relationship with Pollock and De Kooning. Yet, as is made clear by a lively display of 90 Van Gogh watercolors and drawings (see color opposite) that go on view this month at Philadelphia's Museum of Art, Van Gogh was in more than one major respect a 19th century man. While today's painters see their paintings as objects...
...looked like a huge, ominous Tinkertoy: an abstract tangle of pipes, scaffolds and ladders against a moody blue backdrop. The singers, clambering over it with starkly stylized gestures, seemed to be groping through a hallucinatory dream sequence. "It was," said the composer, "an ideal staging that caught the nightmarish quality I intended and gave it an extra dimension...
Texas, as everybody knows, thrives on super-scale. So naturally, the art season in Houston started off with two handsome shows dedicated to four maximal creators. At the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Director James Johnson Sweeney has a mammoth retrospective of the works of Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis, 44, whose canvases have been getting so large that he is building a new studio in California in which to paint them. And Houston's University of St. Thomas Art Gallery put on view 147 designs by three farsighted 18th century French architects, one of whom envisioned a gargantuan stadium...
...called on the services of two Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers, Eric Rawson and Larry Heilos. They showed him how laser beams, controlled by motorized projectors, could produce the desired effect of hard-edge geometric light lines against the wall (standard incandescent bulbs would diffuse into a more abstract-expressionist glow...