Word: abstractedness
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The places are abstracted: alabaster, clean, undimmed by human tears. They are also shrines for the tourists who come in doubleknits and halters. They are entirely American.
Presence is a manifesto, a plea to place more value on the people and landscape surrounding us. Williamson has mastered the art of slipping from the general to the specific and sensual, from the simple to the lofty and complex. He sets forth his quest in "Progress of the Soul...
The same imagery recurs, in a slightly more distanced way, in her big room environment, Confrontation, 1978. Here the viewer is excluded from the central table, which is strewn with breasts, remnants of latex-covered food and other morsels, by a ring of white wooden boxes. These taper toward the...
DIED. Ben Nicholson, 87, British painter whose abstracted images of still lifes and landscapes formed the main link between English art and the continental cubist-constructivist tradition; in London. Born into an artistic and moneyed family, he began as a realistic painter before developing an abstract geometric style.
Mason, moreover, bears a grudge against his abstracted uncle, and has problems of his own.