Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The 1926 answer was simple: there would be no such people. Well, there are plenty of them now, and there is also much of the banking dislocation which the Fords predicted in the post war rise. They have been right twice, when all said them may, and that fine faith...
So, there are reasons, next let there be facts. The change from the bullfinch and wren to the gargoyle is good, as is, in the light of evolutionary abstraction, any change. More than this the Vagabond is an incorrigible romanticist to whose lights the very juices of a glamorous spectacle...
The House Plan once an abstraction is now a reality in brick and mortar and circumstances are at work moulding the "corporate personality" of every House from within while wind and weather and the long suffering ivy are giving the sanction of age to the naked glory without. It is...
Mr. Shahn believes strongly in the importance of subject matter in painting and the universality of appeal, only made possible by an easy understanding of the subject. This idea is a new departure from the increasingly common abstraction of modern art. Mr. Shahn takes the reportorial rather than the editorial...
Turner, who is perhaps the best known of the nineteenth century English painters, is particularly celebrated for the richness of his coloring. Ruskin described him as one of the "seven supreme colorists of the world." On the whole, abstraction is the keynote of his work, not only in his backgrounds...