Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEARLY half a century ago the modern art of Paris-the work of Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi et al.-was introduced to the U.S. at a Manhattan exhibition famed ever since as the 1913 "Armory Show." This summer the U.S. has sent to Europe a show of American abstract expressionist paintings that the sponsors consider, at last, the counterpart of the 1913 show. The abstract expressionists have made their impact on the U.S. art world (some collectors are willing to pay up to $30.000 for a drip painting by Jackson Pollock) and have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors...
...incident could not have happened last week at Bayreuth, where Richard Wagner's grandson Wieland staged a Lohengrin so abstract that the swan was merely a sketchily suggested stationary prop, while the hero made his exit on a descending elevator platform. Since 1951. Wieland Wagner, 41, alternating with his younger brother Wolfgang, 38, has been staging the most effective Wagner productions to be seen anywhere. (He has now redraped all the standard Wagner operas with the exception of The Flying Dutchman, which he will stage in 1960.) Last week's de-swanned Lohengrin was among the best...
...which since 1953, when prize totals topped $5,000 has become a national affair that gives artists a summer-season target worth shooting at. On the walls were 50 paintings from past prizewinners and another 250 winnowed out from the 1,701 entries submitted; they divided about evenly between abstract and realistic...
...will tell you, for I know. There are no men who think symbolically. There are no artists who understand the myth. These are no times to sing of the Abstract and the investigating subcommittee...
...traditional restoration. But the man who most energetically carried on the crusade was a Dominican monk, Father Marie-Alain Couturier (TIME, June 20, 1949 et seq.). Before his death in 1954, he sought out artists in their studios, urged them to try their talents at sacred art in modestly abstract and semi-abstract styles. The first significant experiment was the installation of windows by famed Georges Rouault in the small modern Alpine church at Assy. It proved so successful that the way was paved for others, including windows of Jean Bazaine and Fernand Léger at Audincourt, and Matisse...