Word: abstractionism
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The monumental canvas invites you to stare until your soul merges with its utter blueness. Barnett Newman painted Ulysses in 1952, after the failure of his first two solo shows. But instead of making his art more accessible - his paintings had been criticized as "nearly blank" - he traveled farther into...
At his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1931, the daily Le Figaro called painter Max Beckmann "something like a Germanic Picasso." Nobody would hazard such a comparison today, but the magnificent exhibition of Beckmann's work, which opened in September at Paris' Centre Pompidou, is bound to remind viewers...
It seems like love. The obsessiveness about it, the ascendancy that it reaches over your mind, over all other thoughts. Indeed, it reaches a summit over the world itself that seems to turn reality into a vague abstraction. It stares down as if Zeus on top of Olympus, looking with...
And the task, of course, was to get away from Hitlerian resonances. National Socialism seemed to have poisoned German culture at the root, but to go "international"--either by doing American-style abstraction or by imitating American Pop Art, the latest international style--was unthinkable; it was to lose the...
De Kooning’s works on paper from 1938 to 1955, in which he represents the female form in varying states of abstraction, comprise the extensive exhibition now open at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. This collection of the artist’s works is an...