Word: abstractionist
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...With the 20th century, the nude came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though...
...being a labor lawyer. Those years are fondly remembered by his two children, Barbara, now 25, and married to a Boston intern, and Robert, now a 20-year-old junior at Amherst. During the summers, Goldberg installed his children and his wife Dorothy, a former social worker and an abstractionist painter, in a two-room cabin on the shores of Lake Michigan; he showed up on Friday nights laden with cartons of Chinese food. Goldberg appointed himself sole arbitrator of family disputes, once ruled that Barbara could not wear lipstick until she was 14. Such decisions were not always popular...
...Japan's Yoshishige Saito, 56, Best Foreign Painter. A pioneer abstractionist in his own country, Saito turns out paintings that look disconcertingly like road maps...
...British abstractionists themselves are more modest in their claims. Abstractionist Lanyon denounces current French painting as dull, and adds: "New York has a sense of bigness. We needn't paint big. We haven't got the great land mass behind us. British art is emerging from limbo. It's individual, not a school." Painter Frost says: "The ruination of British art was the bloody Establishment. It was getting to be a bloody ladies' watercolor circle. Now that we've got some ordinary blokes in it, maybe we'll make a noise...
...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...