Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sculptures, but hose who looked at them long enough might be willing to grant his carvings a calm, impersonal sort of beauty like that of odd-shaped pebbles on a beach. In On My Way, Arp had hit upon a deceptively simple justification for his own work and for abstract art in general. Art, said he, should be as natural as the fruits of the earth, "but whereas the fruit of a plant never resembles a balloon or a president in a cutaway suit, the artistic fruit of a man generally shows a ridiculous resemblance to the appearance of other...
Hans Erni is one of Switzerland's most skillful and mysterious painters. Recently an Erni show in Geneva drew 3,000 people in two weeks, and raised a lot of questions. Why, the abstractionists wanted to know, did Erni sully the purity of his abstract compositions by introducing classical figures and anatomical charts? And why, asked the conservatives, did he scratch up his photographically accurate pictures with abstract shapes...
Historicus emphasizes that Stalin, in applying his abstract theory, is ever ready to engage in flexible tactics. He does not hold, like a narrow doctrinaire, that the objective preconditions of revolution are a fixed quantity. Rather, these preconditions are "interdependent variables which are to be manipulated to satisfy just one equation...
...meticulous portrait painter,* Nicholson spent his art-student days "mostly playing billiards," which might possibly have stimulated his liking for abstract forms in space. He turned to abstraction bit by bit, still can't explain how it happened. Said he: "It's like a child learning to walk. By the time you've reached the 50th step you can't describe the different stages...
...never held sales, never bragged about markdowns. He thinks they merely show that the first price was too high. His ads plugged the store rather than special articles or prices. To get away from the item-packed type of ads, Ned went as far afield as a series of abstract illustrations. Though one of his admen grumbled, "We could have turned them upside down and run them again the following week," they brought the customers...