Word: abstractionist
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...abstractionist was a husky, stubble-headed, Indiana-born sculptor named David Smith, who welds and hammers his scraps of iron in a waterfront studio in a corner of Brooklyn Terminal Iron Works. Mr. Smith's iron work at the Neumann-Willard Gallery bears such titles as Head as Still Life, Unity of Three Forms, Leda, looks to the uninitiated like miscellaneous plumbing that has survived a conflagration. But to those who know their abstract iron onions, these arthropodal trivets are as good as they come. For his material, he sometimes ransacks junk yards, picks over leftovers from the neighboring...
...realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left not one line of The Three Graces on another. Picasso's subsequent work has been a jumble of abstractionist, dadaist, expressionist and surrealist elements...
...Blue Horse, considered by many a critic the most brilliant of German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before he had turned out vivid abstractions that run counter to Hitler's esthetic creed. But the casualties of war and poverty were dwarfed by the exiles represented: Abstractionist Paul Klee, Satirist George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, who became a champion bicycle racer before he became one of the leading German cubists. For the London show, Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka sent a wry Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist. A second canvas arrived in four pieces, hacked by Vienna police...
...rumor of Kathe Kollwitz' arrest in Berlin coincided with the opening of three simultaneous exhibitions of her work in Manhattan. Whether or not the rumor was a bit of gratuitous promotion, visitors to the three shows needed no prodding to deplore Nazi treatment of the artist. No abstractionist. Kathe Kollwitz is a weighty, marvelously skilled draftsman in the great 19th-Century line. It is her subject matter, always proletarian, bitterly naturalistic and sorrowful, that rules her out of the "Strength through Joy" school...
...frescoes for public buildings and for the Italian Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition last summer. Among artists represented were Severini, a onetime Futurist who has come back to Tuscany; Pirandello, son of the playwright; Carra, another Futurist who now paints slablike figure studies; Campigli, a respected abstractionist and fresco painter; Cagli, who uses with more talent than most the prevailing umbers, reds and sombre blues of the Italian school; Casorati, winner of this year's second prize at the Carnegie; the eminent metaphysical painter de Chirico and his funny brother Savinio...