Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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An announcement of the French movie version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible is dominated by two abstract blobs that on closer inspection turn out to be the gnarled claws of an old witch. A poster for a Federico Fellini film on the demoralization of youth shows youth as...
The artist's right to change his mind never got a better demonstration than the one given by Painter William Zorach. "The modern movement," he said in 1922, when he was 35, "has freed art from the idea of reproducing nature, an idea which has been persistently followed since...
Partisan of Mankind. In the last 20 years, Lebrun has moved from drawings and wash paintings as direct and simple as those of the Renaissance to increasingly tumid and tormented shapes that at times border on abstraction. But in all his work, he insists, "the human condition is the only...
Sir: The Eichmann trial can only be distressful to the intelligent non-Zionist Jew. What the Israeli perpetrators of the trial do not realize is that the combined anti-Semitic feelings of all peoples will identify with Adolf Eichmann, notwithstanding his unspeakably horrible crimes. For all of his deeds, Eichmann...
When read as a whole and over a long period of time-as they are meant to be-Canaday's comments are not all onesided, but his attitude is clear. More alarmed than gratified by the proliferation of galleries and painters in the U.S., he once acidly, if jokingly...