Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Final. Though Picasso shaped a whole half-century of art in his image, it is clear that since the end of World War II he no longer dominates the whole canvas of modern art. He believes a work should be constructed, is distressed by the work of many young abstract expressionists, once grabbed an ink-stained blotter, shoved it at a visitor and snapped, "Jackson Pollock." But Picasso's latest work shows that he has lost none of his amazing powers of draftsmanship nor his virtuoso ability to improvise on a theme until it is obedient to his will...
...their egotism is preferable to the deadly altruism of the '30s, whose intellectuals minded everybody's business and loved mankind with a dreadful abstract love often indistinguishable from hatred. But Lucky Jim and pals also possess the defect of their egotistical virtue. Determined not to pledge a false allegiance, they reject all allegiances as false...
...desire to be as free of preconceived ideas as possible has allowed Gerassi to paint in a number of different styles. There are very abstract red blotches on green backgrounds that have an affinity with Pollock and the Rorschach tests, as well as recognizable still lifes and landscapes. In this sense, Gerassi reminds us of his compatriot Picasso although the fluent shifts in style by Picasso are motivated by a more intellectual problem-solving mentality...
...structure of Cezanne's Portrait of Jules Peyron and Rocks at Bimemus, wedded with all the warmth of bristling light, comprises the quintessence of this classic vision. And an early, analytical-cubist Picasso landscape, with its shimmering greys and silvers, shows how formal structure at its purest and most abstract can be fully as moving as more extroverted emotion...
Alden Christie has unfortunately marred by overstatement his painting The Kitchen. This picture would make its point perfectly without the nude on the far left which adds tooo sharp a sense of ugliness to the composition. The background is painted masterfully. Christie is also at home in a more abstract vein. His Carnival, in the manner of Jackson Pollock, is spattered with gaiety and cleverness...