Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Line fascinated the German artists within the Late Gothic tradition. Their love for its abstract and intricate nature is clearly brought out in the Boston Museum's extraordinary exhibition of Durer and his Time. But above all, this show brings out Durer's supreme position among German draughtsmen of the fifteenth century. He was the man who tried to bridge the gap between Late Gothic linear expression and the compositional stability of the Renaissance...
...approaches to the problem of God, then, will have their greatest impact within the church community. They may help shore up the faith of many believers and, possibly, weaken that of others. They may also lead to a more realistic, and somewhat more abstract, conception of God. "God will be seen as the order in which life takes on meaning, as being, as the source of creativity," suggests Langdon Gilkey. "The old-fashioned personal God who merely judges, gives grace and speaks to us in prayer, is, after all, a pretty feeble God." Gilkey does not deny the omnipotence...
...were born only the day before yesterday are those in which, with shimmering veils of color, he fused imagination and reality. A contemporary of Turner dubbed one such work "soapsuds and whitewash." Essayist William Hazlitt called them "pictures of nothing and very like." Yet they anticipated impressionism and even abstract expressionism...
...erasing half of his 44 years. It is a solid smile, like the solid stuff he likes. Bullitt always wants to get the measure of things, to put a ruler to them and look at them under a magnifying glass. Perhaps this is why he doesn't like abstract art, where such measurements don't have meaning, while he is fascinated by marine archeology, where they...
Died. Hans Hofmann, 85, pioneer, teacher and father confessor of U.S. abstract expressionism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...