Word: abstractionism
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What was it that Cézanne did that was so important to the future? Many things, but chief among them is that he shattered the picture plane. By constructing each painting as a series of plainly separate, insistent strokes, he confounds the viewer's natural impulse to treat the canvas...
I’m with Rothko on this one. Wyeth chose representation, Rothko chose abstraction, but at bottom their work expresses that common, shared experience of not really being sure what America is anymore.
Where Now, Brown Cow. Wyeth knows that his work is sometimes admired by the wrong people for the wrong reasons. "Ooooo!" he mocks, "Mr. Wyeth, such a bee-o-o-ooootiful cow!" Says he: "I'm a pure abstractionist in my thought. I'm no more like a...
We’ve been going about this all wrong. As I perused the paper after reveille last Friday, I couldn’t help but feel a mite more morose than usual, a dose more dolorous. Nine AIDS activists in Dakar, in the supposed shining citadel of West African...
My fellow Americans, we find ourselves just days away from what will probably be one of the most memorable elections in any of our lives. What’s more is that we may be only moments away from electing our first black President and starting the process of cleaning...