Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment Calcagno signed up, the California School, under Painters Clyfford Still and Mark Rotako, was the center of abstract painting on the West Coast. Students cut out the preliminaries, went straight to work slapping paint on canvas "to get through to an immediate sensory perception...
...reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity and the outward-giving hands of charity. Asked why he did not do the obvious and portray the four chaplains, arms linked...
This time there were four ballets new to the U.S. by the company's leading Choreographer Frederick Ashton, one by rising young John Cranko. Ashton's Scènes de Ballet was danced before a De Chirico-like architectural backdrop, proved as angularly abstract as the Stravinsky score in an intricate counterpoint of shifting groups. High point was the saucy, mincing solo of young ballerina Nadia Nerina, dancing like a flirtatious marionette to the lilting wail of an oboe...
Landscape painting, like abstract art, goes on forever. Today abstractionism is the height of fashion, but thousands of housewives and businessmen amuse themselves by painting surprisingly competent pictures of vacation scenes. A century ago, landscapes were all the rage with the professionals-but then the hobbyists mainly contented themselves with abstractions such as hooked rugs and patchwork quilts, or semi-abstractions such as duck decoys. Last week the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. staged a 19th-century landscape exhibition called "Artists in the White Mountains" that was bound to draw praise from contemporary amateurs and scorn from fashionably...
...rising storms. Contemporary landscape painters look for a different, milder set of cliches: red barns, spreading elms, old wharves and the like. Professional modernists, for their part, do not set foot out of doors, send their models packing, pull the shades down tight, turn on the light, and paint abstract patterns uninspired by anything...