Word: abstractionism
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Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), throughout his prolific career as a prominent member of the New York School painters, left an indelible mark on painting. His perpetual investigation of the relation between figuration and abstraction, as manifest in the female form, led him to paint innovative and...
In taking on the task of reconciling Clinton the Scalawag with Clinton the Brilliant Policymaker, Klein walks us briskly through the White House years, showing us a President who balanced the budget, reformed welfare, passed NAFTA, bailed out Mexico; who brought stability to Bosnia and instability to Newt Gingrich. Like...
Japan's economic crisis was once an abstraction: numbers on a chart reflecting decreasing bank reserves and increasing bad debt. The crisis is real now, very real, as everyone from the Prime Minister to the cram-school student knows. It's too bad that the country's co-opted and...
As he looked for ways to make his pictures say more, Faurer became increasingly fascinated with multiple-exposure shots like Accident, New York, N.Y., one of the great photographs of the postwar years. (Faurer's personal archives were messy; we are sure only that the picture was taken sometime between...
Finely claims to use this disadvantage to her advantage. “I didn’t have the privilege as a woman to use abstraction,” she says. Finley decided to outsmart men at their own game by elaborating on their obsession with the female body. In...