Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abstract art, in its heyday after World War II, had a vitality and expressiveness that will forever enrich painting and sculpture. But in much of the abstractionist work of recent years, the vitality has seemed played out, and a sizable school of critics has decided that abstract is old hat...
What has happened, says Getlein, is that the variations possible to abstraction are running out. The oldtimers of abstraction are only repeating themselves, and their disciples will do the same. The genuinely novel paintings at the Whitney were paintings that show at least a hint of image-some sand dunes...
Abstraction Ran Out. In time. Jan got to Spain, to Lisbon, and finally to the U.S. He worked as a dishwasher, a factory worker, a day-camp instructor; but in 1945 he decided to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Art Students League, six months later switched to...
By 1950 he had started working in a mosaic style which, though still abstract, was tightly disciplined. But the mosaics did not satisfy him either. "Abstraction is no longer enough for me," he said. "So I'm returning to the image. The image gives one a wider sense of...
His embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are...