Word: abstractedness
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For four years, many of us who graduates today took that banal, complacent recommendation from singer Bobby McFerrin to heart. On campus, we abstracted ourselves from the contradictions of daily life, trying to stay happy.
Park, Diebenkorn and Bischoff regularly drew together from live models, eschewing abstract expressionism's notion of drawing "from the subconscious," a holdover from surrealist automatism. In a work of the '50s like Coffee, 1956, Diebenkorn smudged over or omitted facial features altogether. Bischoff harmonized roughly sketched figures and their environments...
To follow Braque as he patiently constructs his first real masterpiece, Violin and Pitcher, 1910, is to watch a classical sensibility throwing itself into the flux of uncertainty and coming through intact. Chardin still lives beneath the silvery buckling planes of the pitcher, and every one of the hundreds of...
Wade is also abstracted. He becomes a fugitive whom Rolfe imagines to be "the gray-faced man who shoves circles of frozen dough into an oven at the Mr. Pizza at the mall and lives in a town-house apartment at the edge of town until his mailman recognizes him...
The Gothic-Byzantine heritage survived in Siena longer in the ornate altarpiece frames, the gold backgrounds, the exquisitely rhythmic and abstracted profiles. The natural world of woods, mountains, streams, sky and stars takes more time to become the frame of divine and biblical events, and, when it finally does, it...