Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam's war is an endless litany of abstract events that one believes but never sees, Cambodia's five-year war is an immediate, palpable, personal experience. Take a left Urn at the airport, and five kilometers later you are right at the front lines, where government T-28s drop cluster bombs, gunships fire rockets, and miniguns and 105s endlessly pound away at Communist positions just northwest of the city...
...Hayden Gallery has put on a show of Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters. Abstract Expressionism as a movement put American art in the top position it has today, but these five painters--Gorky, Guston, Kline, deKooning and Pollack--would be outstanding even If they hadn't formed a style. The drawings are very different from their plantings, but just as visually exciting, and this show shouldn't be missed. The gallery's at 160 Memorial Drive, daily 10-4, Tuesdays also 6-9, through March...
...rough-hewn and informal with the grandiose. The legislative chamber, in which the 120 Knesset members most four days a week, contains simple beige swivel chairs arranged in concentric half-circles behind long curved desks. The ceiling is high and majestic, but the wall is carved in an abstract relief symbolizing peace; an incomplete circle represents the city of Jerusalem which was still split by barbed wire when this new seat of government was constructed...
Many of the pictures in "The Flesh." "The Devil," and "Home" have the same autographic, arty quality as the cityscapes of "The world." People in rigid poses are strained into architectonic, formally abstract surroundings; heads are cropped off; expressions and compositions are strange but not descriptive...
...battle it was forgotten, while 'Viva la Revolucion' et al was the day's chant. Though the revolution might be coming, the march was supposed to have been for the children. And not much was heard of them. They floated around somewhere in the background, but only as an abstract concept, lingering in the shadow of the ultimate truth the revolution. Perhaps children are too small an issue. Certainly they pale in comparison with revolution. But just give them another ten years. Then we will have a humdinger of a march...