Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delectable Glow. He came to abstract painting through still life, canceling out recognizable objects until the tabletop became a flat plane inlaid with small, quirky geometrical forms. But Cavallon's formative encounter was with Mondrian's work, and it is to Mondrian that the grid paintings he made...
Striking Insights. Three great waves of events course through the pages of The Mediterranean: the longue duree of geographic and physical time; the shorter time span of cities and societies; the history of political events, "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs...
My legs were like stumps the last three miles. Muscles I never knew I had started to hurt. Boston College, Commonwealth Ave, and Beacon St. blurred into abstraction, I sure wasn't admiring the sights or the crowds. I looked only for the proffered drink... the raised garden hose... water...
or "Scientific Transcendence and Sexual Imminence, or the Relationship of Lust to the Spirit of Abstraction: The Sexual Behavior of Twelve Scientists at Los Alamos in 1942-45, the Zenith of Transcendence of Twentieth-Century Physics Interrupted by Periodic Re-Entry into the Organismic and Cultural Imminence of Santa Fe...
Thompson returned in 1974 from a self-imposed exile in Germany, and is now an artist-in-residence in Tampa, Florida, where she practices her philosophy that art should be a lifestyle and strives to make art accessible. There she plans works that are on a large scale (one sculpture...