Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular magazines handle articles on modern art, they treat it like a beast that might get out of control and kill off half of their subscribers. Your Feb. 13 Art section showed that another type of writing on modern art is not excluded. Thank you for reporting well on "Abstract Expressionism," America's biggest contribution to Western art to date...
Honest, I don't worship Jackson Pollock . . . Today it's almost impossible to worship anything except the creative expression of the self. This emphasis on individuality (not for its own sake) makes the work of the "abstract expressionists" meaningful-not in any basically different way from jazz, or certain aspects of American business before becoming institutionalized, etc. This vital American painting is not only an answer to greyflannelsuitism, but to art as propaganda (e.g., Russia today and Mexico yesterday). Its seemingly uncommunicative, antisocial, art-for-art's-sake implications are understandable in terms of the failure...
Among the 80,000 ideographs in the Chinese language, none are charged with more meaning for the people of China today than Hsiao Mieh. In the abstract but exact language of ' China, Hsiao Mieh means "deprived of existence . . . done away with . . . otherwise disposed of." In the broader language of humanity, Hsiao Mieh today symbolizes the greatest planned massacre in the history of mankind...
...Paris Stanton Macdonald-Wright soon floated into the heady atmosphere of the postimpressionists. Teaming up with a fellow American, Morgan Russell, he worked out basic principles of an abstract style, based on scientific color theories, which he called "Synchromy." The results' first shown in 1913, were curving, intersecting volumes of light, which today take their place on the artistic map, alongside the "Orphism" of French Painter Robert Delaunay and Italian futurist studies of forms in motion, as feeder streams into the main current of 20th century...
...Church's annual Church Day, Dr. Hans-Herman Walz. The thing worth fighting for, he said, is Europe. For Europe is not merely an inheritance from the past, but "a goal which lies before us . . . a vision . . . a task." Dr. Walz doubted that men and women fight for abstract values, but he was sure that they could be persuaded to fight for the future of Europe...