Word: abstractionist
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...Perhaps Readers Miller and Davis will find Abstractionist Crawford's S.S. Nevada-at-Bikini more understandable...
Carnegie's judges had voted $1,000 first prize to Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths for a knotty grey-green what-is-it entitled Gear (TIME, Oct. 21). But when the gallerygoers' ballots were all in, they had voted, as they did in 1944, for conservative Cox. Cox's highly stylized brand of the bucolic-a plush wheat field under an exploding cloud-had the same kind of crowd appeal as the seascapes of the late Frederick J. Waugh (Waugh won the Carnegie popularity prize five years running...
There were 20 civilian photographers at Bikini-but only one artist. Of all things, he was an abstractionist...
...anybody vainly looking for the atom bomb's familiar and awesome mushrooming spray, Abstractionist Crawford explained that he had painted what he felt, not what he saw. His paintings, he added, were "a comment on the negative and positive expressions of contemporary society, with an emphasis on the negative. . . . Definitely most people won't understand. . . . They approach pictures-not only my own but all works of art-with the mistaken idea that they can understand them after looking at them briefly. Yet these same people would expect to spend several hours on a work of art like...
...Lenin. In 1921 Lenin found time for a campaign-much like Hitler's later one-of "organized indignation" against modernists in Russia, which drove the incorrigibles from the country. In exile they contributed to the main stream of European art history. Among them: expressionist Marc Chagall; the late abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky...