Word: abstractionism
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Gorky, who would spend years appropriating the successive styles of Picasso (plus Kandinsky's and Miro's) until he had them fully digested, apprenticed himself with typical fierceness to The Studio, to its subtracted forms, flat surfaces and shallow space. After the Tinkertoy intricacies of Cubism, this was Picasso glancing...
Above all, amid the romance and playfulness of the love affair and the artworks born of it, the 350 works on display here capture the fecundity of Picasso, and give an insight into the mechanics of genius. Here are the studies obsessively reworking an idea or theme, many of them...
TAPES 'N TAPES THE LOON If you likeindie rock, you probably own a dozen albums just like this Minneapolis, Minn., band's taut, lo-fi debut--and you will want this one too. The lyrics are from the Pavement school of abstraction ("Kelly the insistor/ Your brother is a...
The debate over whether to install a barrier on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the world's most popular place for suicides, is an abstraction for most people. But it is all too real for Kevin Hines. Of the more than 1,200 people who have jumped off the...
The next generation of watercolorists further redefined the bounds of the sub-genre. As Europeans like Kandinsky, Miró, and Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia...