Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If you want to know what painting is or can be, look at Velazquez. This has been the judgment of artists for the past 300 years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial...
Naipaul is English not so much by an accident of history as by personal acts ^ of intelligence and will. Thirty-eight years in Britain have given him a proper accent, a direct way with service staff and an impatience with romantic abstraction. He has a British wife, Patricia, with whom...
Benton's own abstract paintings may not have been quite up to the level of Macdonald-Wright's, though it is difficult to judge them fairly, since he destroyed so much of his early work "to get all that modernist dirt out of my system." But it was abstraction that...
WHEN Professor Anna Chave announced that students should take advantage of Eastern Airlines $12 fares to visit New York's Museum of Modern Art, some students in "Modern Art and Abstraction" cried out in protest. When The Crimson continued to run Eastern Airlines advertisement throughout the machinists strike, some Crimson...
The idea the Western market tends to promote, that the Soviet Union is a mine of little-known contemporary pictorial genius, is mostly sales talk. Stalinism deformed or aborted two generations of artistic talent, and no culture recovers so fast. The sense of a time lag is acute to the...