Word: abstractionist
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...subjects were strictly 20th century but a long way from conventional modernism. Painter Paul Resika, 24, who once was an abstractionist, showed two straining dockworkers grappling with heavy sacks against a classic background; Pegeen Helion, 27, produced a pattern of bright, doll-like figures in gondolas, and German-born Ernest Mondorf, 27, a large, symbolic study of intertwined nudes...
Most interesting of the lot was a 38-year-old ex-abstractionist named Edward Melcarth, who paints mural-size canvases of factories and workmen, using one of the Renaissance's favorite materials, egg tempera. Painter Melcarth has his eye on what he hopes is a potential new market for art: U.S. labor unions. He plans to ship off canvases to various union headquarters around the country and invite the members to pay him whatever they think his paintings are worth. In San Francisco, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union now has before...
...Karl Knaths, 60, Cape Cod abstractionist: The Moon, an angular farmyard scene in grey and lavender, and Salt Flats, a seaside scene in blues and greens...
...British Critic Sir Kenneth Clark maintains that Sutherland is not really an abstractionist, on the curious ground that he "imitates objects with the most literal reality; only these objects do not usually exist...
FOREIGN SCULPTURE: U.S. Abstractionist Alexander Calder (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951), whose whirligig mobiles fascinated both judges and visitors...