Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dassin has capitalized on the Motion Picture's potential for reality in making a potentially abstract story tragically concrete. Action, not dialogue, implements the drama. His players square off against each other visually, not verbally. In place of articulating their beliefs, the prostitute Mary Magdalen stops strutting and the betrothed disciple, John, lets loose his fiancee's hand...
...Willem de Kooning, by Thomas B. Hess, discusses De Kooning's harsh, fast, and fluorescent brand of abstract expressionism in elaborately sophisticated terms, is occasionally apt, often provocative...
...making world have been slight, as the few works they show demonstrate. The best of the group is a reserved color lithograph by Andrew Stasik where a large mottled rectangular form slanted across the page elegantly balances the white of the paper surrounding it. As for the remaining few abstract pieces, they seem to be imitating avant-garde paintings while suffering from their inability to employ the tactile effects of pigment...
There is a middle ground between these two extremes of style. In his atmospheric etchings. Harold Altman uses long, thin strokes to create a highly abstract atmosphere through which people and objects appear, much as images appear through the dots of a Seurat drawing. Another artist of this "moderate" group, Rudy Puzzeti, exhibits Tower of Babel, an atmospheric evocation of Breughel's famed painting on the same subject...
Smith and Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston. Both finished out of the big prize money. But as a whole, the exhibition proved that the modern, peculiarly American idiom of abstract expressionism has become the lingua franca of art the world over. Murky and only half articulate, it is nevertheless spoken everywhere. The idiom has plenty of champions, and may yet find its poet...