Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conquering the Spectrum. For 14 years before his death, Matisse suffered from intestinal cancer. In his town house in Nice, he painted from his bed or wheelchair, surrounded by women-his beautiful secretary, two models, a nurse, cook and maid. Even though an invalid, he still drew in masterly style...
Into Abstraction
Last Yar at Marienbad, made in 1961, corrected many of the technical faults of Hiroshima and allowed Resnais to push further into the realm of abstraction. By 1963, when he made Muriel, Resnais was in unquestionable control of his medium, rendering the slightest impressions subject to his intent. At this...
But Wilcox insists that these and other questions must be ironed out "as we look at individual courses and specific situations." His mind works on an operational level. He avoids definitions, generalizations, sweeping conclusions and philosophies of education. At a vague abstraction his brows furrow, a slight smile forms at...
"The Red Road" and the "Yaddo Road" summarize all the best qualities of Dan Lang's work. The primitive flavor of Gaugin's palette and the firmly drawn, simplified outlines of Gothic stained-glass underlie his very contemporary notion of abstraction. The radically simple planes of color contain only the...