Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such dead-earnest studies as Joel Reeves's shadowy Still Life in Green and Bruno Sepka's oil of a snowed-in tenement district which he called Man's Houses, raised the exhibition's level of technical competence but did nothing to lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis...
Sunlit Boulder. Burly, balding Burr Miller began as a conservative figure sculptor. At 43, Miller best likes "carving nudes out of stone, but I also want to keep the quality of the stone itself, so I suppose I'm trying to blend realism and abstraction, in a way." The...
Ralston Crawford wrote that his abstraction of a Hawaiian fishing port, Kewalo, showing two or three slices of plane geometry and a porthole, simply reflected his "interest in finding and expressing ... a bit of order." He seemed to be on safe enough ground there.
The son of a meticulous portrait painter,* Nicholson spent his art-student days "mostly playing billiards," which might possibly have stimulated his liking for abstract forms in space. He turned to abstraction bit by bit, still can't explain how it happened. Said he: "It's like a...
...Manhattan's George L. K. Morris contributed an abstraction as tasteful as any in the show, though it demonstrated how academic abstractionism can get. Entitled New Year's Eve on Broadway, it might almost have been painted 30 years ago-on Montmartre-if the signboards had read Vin and Tabac instead of Four Roses and Camels...