Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict and feeling and such ugliness that instinctively, from inner necessity, my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Shortly afterward, under the guns of Verdun, Franz Marc was killed. Last week U. S. gallerygoers found his soft, poetically gloomy animal scenes a welcome diversion from the hullabaloo of World...
...everywhere; it is as if a hearer were in the midst of the music. As the music sweeps to a climax, it froths over the proscenium arch, boils into the rear of the theatre, all but prances up & down the aisles. The hazy orchestra begins to dissolve, and weird, abstract ripples and filaments begin an unearthly ballet in Technicolor...
...hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show how musical sensation may be transferred to visual images...
Earnest, unaffected Midwesterner Smith briefly visited two U. S. universities (Ohio, Washington), studied art at Manhattan's Art Students' League, last spring gave a show of abstract sculpture which he forged of iron (TIME, April 22). The inspiration for his medallions came from coins and cylinder seals which he saw in Greece. To convey the classic feeling, he put his initials and inscriptions in Greek letter on some of the medals-but in "Coffee Pot Greek," like a word inscribed on War Exempt Sons of the Rich which spells out "soft cookies." Sculptor Smith calls himself a humanitarian...
This is a rather stiff exercise in metaphysics, hardly rendered easier of comprehension by the relatively abstract blank-verse form of dialogue. For full appreciation, it makes substantial demands upon the concentration of the audience. The measure of the Dramatic Club's success is to be seen in the degree to which they have made these demands reasonable for the average audience and have rewarded the attention of the audience. Their remarkable success in so doing reveals much ingenuity, talent and plain hard work. Ingenuity is displayed in the arrangement of the stage and effectiveness of the setting designed...