Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own propaganda" and the Kremlin "has brought the level of intelligence of all Russia down to its own. . . . The Kremlin actually was surprised and deeply resentful of the fact that the Finns shot at them. . . . The Slav intellect can't understand anyone fighting for such an abstract thing as freedom. . . . The trouble with Russia is that it's large but not great. The myth of the mighty Red Army has been shattered and Stalin can never regain the lost prestige of the Finnish debacle...
Outside a staid brick building on Manhattan's staid Murray Hill last week an Alexander Calder mobile* gyred and gimbled in the breeze. A frank hybrid, sporting a trio of abstract forms atop a classical column, it symbolized the hybrid show inside (at the headquarters of the Architectural League of New York). The show's title: "Versus." Its subject: the rival claims of traditional and modernist architecture...
...further suggest," he continued, "that it is important to learn something about the history of our civilization. This can only be done by taking English literature and philosophy, as well as history. Courses like mathematics are advisable because they aid in the acquisition of some facility to deal with abstract ideas...
...Neither abstract nor academic, he uses a selective symbolism that packs more into a fragment than many sculptors get in a whole figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...
...incite the spectator. Matisse relies mainly upon the sensitivity of his line and the balanced harmony of his color to attain this end; but strangely enough, when he leaves the field of color and portrays a subject through the print medium, his result is the same, namely a rather abstract picture which is neither more nor less than merely pleasant. In his ease, the use of color contributes toward the ultimate effect but is not essential; Matisse is primarily a draftsman and secondarily a painter...