Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is some limited dissent even from this almost univer sally held view. According to Lateran University's Monsignor Ferdinando Lambrushchini, the destruction of military objectives with nuclear weapons might be morally more justifiable than the bombing of cities with TNT. However, the moral condemnation of nuclear war is...
Bronze, plaster and marble, when they turn up, seem quaintly Victorian amid the outcroppings of anodized aluminum, vinyl and Plexiglas. Sheet metal is everywhere; one piece, Ernest Trova's Large Landscape, weighs about three tons. Most of the newcomers (50 of the artists were making their debuts at the...
Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first modern artists to put abstraction into the visual vocabulary of 20th century painting. Yet roots of Kandinsky's modernism lie more in the soul than in any scientific mood. For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital...
Kandinsky's art became more and more severe in the 1920s, while he was teaching at Germany's famed Bauhaus. Only a few essential traces of serpentine exuberance remain in Stability. He had turned to the excessive discipline that he believed abstraction demanded. But the roots remain visible...
Certainly Eduardo Chillida restrains the knotty nature of his wooden sculpture (see over page), and Antonio Saura's Brigitte Bardot is unsentimental. Says Saura, 36: "When I throw a blob of paint on my canvas, I am committing a rape. When I work I become a kind of monster...