Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the best-known young American painter now working in Europe." Last week Sam Francis racked up another triumph. Museum Director Arnold Rudlinger of Basel's Kunsthalle, acting for a group of Swiss art collectors, plunked down 1,000,000 French francs ($2,857) for Francis' latest abstract oil, a huge, 10 ft.-by-14 ft. canvas of swirling black forms, beneath which glow splotches of hot reds and yellows...
...movie is vivid enough when it deals with the large, abstract issues of the case--the corruption of justice, anti-Semitism, and the moral vacuum of French society at the turn of the century. But when it tries to depict the people involved, the result is often ludicrous. At times, as when Dreyfus lumbers across the parade ground where he has just been stripped of his rank and yells "I'm innocent," at the top of his lungs, the picture seems almost embarassing. The fault here is that of Fritz Kortner, who plays Dreyfus. His acting style is so restrained...
...Perhaps his work is fresh and unarming to the 20th century man because it is aimed at those who take themselves too seriously and who forget to feel the stars, the sun and the land the way Miro does. The fact that his form is organic and never completely abstract--that it is always a sign of something "a man, a bird or something else"--should give his art lasting value both because contemporary art is moving away from the more analytic and technical phases of modernism and because such form, combined with virtuosity of color, seems to be most...
...simplicity and sincerity effectively evokes the essence of a feeling. It is heartening to see one college poet who seems more interested in communicating something than in displaying a developing erudition, or in proving "maturity" by affecting a depression which is obviously not too deeply felt. Unfortunately, the abstract-term-so-that-they'll-know-I'm-intellectual school is heavily represented in this issue by Ernest Wight's "catatonic crocodile--bogged deep in mud" and Robert Johnson's two poems. One of Johnson's poems, "The Subway Beggars," might have been very effective, but at the end he attempts...
...Today's heirs of German expressionism are Manhattan's "abstract expressionists," who make arrogance an article of faith...