Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JEAN BAZAINE, 50, a sculptor turned painter whose abstract stained-glass windows at Assy and Audincourt are among the best modern glass work in France...
...ABSTRACT...
...minutes to a few hours to paint. Last week a new exhibition of Mathieu's paintings was on view at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery, and proved him to be one of the most forceful practitioners of the rock 'em, sock 'em school of abstract...
Mathieu's own name for the school is "lyrical abstractionism." In London it is "action painting," in Manhattan "abstract expressionism." By whatever name, the school stands for huge canvases covered with fervent swirls and splashes of paint...
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique (New York Percussion Group conducted by Carlos Surinach; Columbia). This notorious composition (written in 1924 for an abstract film) started wild fistfights at its Paris concert premiere and a quieter scandal in Manhattan. Thirty years after, its buzzing doorbells, roaring airplane propellers and four mechanical pianos seem just quaint and noisy. But the work has moments that are actually tender, and is surprisingly convincing...