Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although perhaps the most advanced series now on the market, Come to the Father represents only one aspect of a major revision of religious teaching that involves virtually all U.S. churches. Several other Catholic publishers are bringing out similar new catechisms of their own, and many Protestant denominations have drastically...
Sir: Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American...
"A painting-before being a war horse, a nude woman or some anecdote-is essentially a flat surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order," said one painter-polemicist, Maurice Denis, in 1890. Thus began the rapid but epic evolution in which representation was first blurred, then distorted, then...
It was an exhilarating experience. But inevitably, within a few years a new church was established. Says Artist Saul Steinberg: "This church has its saints, who are accepted only after they are dead. We have the holy bones of Mondriaan and the miraculous blood of Soutine. This church has its...
"Esthetics is to art what ornithology is to the birds," quips Barnett Newman. On the contrary, too many modern painters seem to listen first and paint afterward, to be guided by the art theory of others rather than an art instinct of their own. The turnover is so fast that...