Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...
...generation who is "in the air" today. Flexner dares hope aloud that "the old gentleman will be a bridge between today's abstractionism and realism, for sooner or later the pendulum's got to swing back. Hopper's compositions are awfully good in the abstract, you know. Abstractionists respect...
Slow Local. However dreary his subject matter, Hopper invariably bathes it in pure, liquid-seeming light. He is as reticent in applying paint to canvas as the abstract expressionists are bold, giving his pictures a single overall surface, as if they were seen through a picture window. By suppressing all details that would not be noticed in a passing glance, and arranging his compositions to suggest that the scene extends far beyond the frame, he puts his picture window in motion. Seeing a Hopper exhibition is like floating through people's backyards on a slow local, in a state...
...Adler had broadened the picture to include social instincts; Jung deepened it to include religious instincts. From Jung's complex and often obscure theories Progoff distills an essence: that mankind has a collective "Self," which can be fully realized only through a religious outlook, regardless of creed. This abstract Self, with many features of the ancient soul, is utterly foreign to the sexual debris that Freud found at the bottom of the unconscious well...
Dozier is a senior member of a group of Texas painters who have evolved what Manhattan's Whitney Museum Associate Director Lloyd Goodrich calls "abstract art based on the character of Texas landscape." Texas born and bred, Dozier got his start doing PWAP murals, then put in seven years of study under Boardman Robinson at Colorado Springs' Fine Arts Center: "I must have done 6,000 sketches of mining towns, rocks and the human figure...