Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graphics 1 and Graphics 2, 168 Newbury St. in Boston, lithographs from Ellsworth Kelly's plant series. Kelly, a major abstract artist, made these representational prints of Cyclamens, Magnolias, Camelias and lemon branches in 1964. Through Nov. 16, the Gallery is open...
...then arises is whether or not theater by committee can ever produce a consistent artistic vision that has emotional as well as intellectual authenticity. Persephone's Return is a fairly convincing argument that this is impossible. The characters and situations in the RIFT production never come alive; they remain abstract truths that need to be clothed in the flesh and blood of one person's experiences and convictions...
...color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much more abstract, said, "...as the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted--shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean...
Soviet artists have long chafed under ideological commands that they stick to the rigid canons of socialist realism, and have flirted with such decadent Western forms as abstract expressionism and even pop art. Works in these styles obviously cannot be sold openly in Russia, but there is a well-established private market for them among discreet collectors, including many senior officials in the Foreign Ministry, scientific institutes and universities. Many of the painters would like to make that market public. Last week 20 Moscow artists tried to bring abstract art out of the ideological closet by mounting an open...
...with hardly less money at his disposal. The tone has been one of impetuous enthusiasms and voracity, rather than the historically balanced connoisseurship a great museum needs. Thus Hirshhorn's enthusiasm for De Kooning has resulted in a superb group of early De Koonings, whereas some other key abstract expressionists, notably Pollock, are represented by weak or indifferent works. So although the works on view are obviously picked with care, they contain many longueurs-especially poor European painting of the '50s and '60s, for which Hirshhorn seems to have had a predilection...