Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near monopoly that the slash and drip school of painters has clamped on the Manhattan art world for the past decade is beginning to crack up. The first signs of change came with the shift to a gentler, moody type of semi-landscape-painting which critics are calling abstract impressionism (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956). Last week one of the leading pioneers of abstract painting stunned his comrades with an about-face show that pointed to a new and radically different solution. See ART, The Bottle...
...Tour's style, De Young Director Walter Heil says: "It is almost an abstract realism." Wrote French Critic Andreé Malraux: "No other painter, not even Rembrandt, can so well suggest that vast, elemental stillness; La Tour alone is the interpreter of the serene that dwells in the heart of darkness...
Through the cold-water flats, walk-up studios, automats and bars where Manhattan's artists live and congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting...
Some non-objective modern prints can be seen at the Boylston Street Print Gallery this week. The artist, Czechoslovakian-born Terese Haas, now on her way from Paris to Cambridge, works in a style that is rhythmic, sometimes heavy and Her designs seem to be influenced by abstract expressionism but they also fall within a general category of contemporary prints coming out of France and Germany...
...them. And the current issue of Vogue tips off its readers that People Are Talking About "the Columbia University classes of the great Zen Buddhist teacher, Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, who sits in the center of a mound of books, waving his spectacles with ceremonial elegance while mingling the philosophical abstract with the familiar concrete...