Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stella's work attracted attention almost immediately because it took abstraction one measurable step farther along the path toward pure form. The generation of Pollock and Kline had eliminated the figure; their canvases derived impact and emotion from the visible signs of struggle left by the painter's...
The organizers of The Freedom Budget believe it is perfectly possible to organize the masses around an abstraction. It is merely a matter of bringing the dead to life. "There's an absolute analogy between the crusade for Civil Rights and liberties and the crusade which The Freedom Budget represents...
George was as terrified by his monstrous abstraction. He has seen forces rampant on the earth.
One reason why the book may bore Albanians is that so much of it is devoted to British industrialism about the time of Dickens. Das Kapital combines pyramids of abstraction with impassioned polemics more typical of the better known work of Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Occasionally one can see Adams missing and then discovering the precise size and degree of detail which will exactly convey what he seeks: in "Detail of Meadow Grass, Late Evening" he achieves a delicate, tapestry-like translation of nature; later in "Raindrops on Grass" his enlargement is merely crude, but...