Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loud or too soft. Dr. Perdoncini and his twelve teachers are implacable about correcting a pupil's pitch until it is acceptable. The child who is born deaf may need only a year to learn how to pronounce the names of foods, toys or friends. Words for abstract ideas take longer...
...expression, a reaching out into the uncharted universe of sound. The effect is a kind of stream-of-consciousness music, an unchained melody of jagged cries, urgent bleats and halting, irregular leaps, played to the splintered cross rhythms of his sidemen. Coleman's genius is that, like an abstract painter, he is able to impose a connecting pattern on an elusive free form. When it works, it is the most exciting music being played in jazz today...
...bombshell and London is rapturous. Wrote the Sunday Telegraph: "Peggy Guggenheim has achieved what many a museum has tried to do, and done it better." The collection is a chronicle of revolution. Beginning with a 1911 Picasso, through cubism, Dada, surrealism and on to the U.S. abstract expressionists, she has swooped up the dynamite that has given the words "modern art" their meaning (see color...
...opened her now famous "Art of This Century" gallery. There she gave one-man shows to a group of such young unknowns as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, thus foster-mothering the generation that was to make the U.S. a world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist returning to Europe. In 1949 she established herself in her 18th century Venetian palazzo, began collecting Lhasa terriers...
Died. Milton Clark Avery, 71, pre-abstract-expressionist painter whose studies of blocky, faceless figures and wispy, grey-green seascapes in the 1920s drew a blank with the public, yet so inspired such young artists as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb that he became a pivotal influence on them, even though he himself had to wait until the 1950s before his own primitivistic, relatively representational canvases finally brought as much as $10,000; after a long illness; in New York City...