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...rich red and orange hues of the giant murals of Josef Mikl breathed new life into Vienna's 18th century Redoutensaal concert hall. In addition to winning praise for his abstract works in sculpture, drawing and painting, Mikl helped reinvigorate the art community and heal its wounds following the Nazi era in his native Austria...
...government says ‘we’re sorry,’” she said. Jin-Ji Kim ’10, another audience member, disagreed. “People underestimate the symbolic aspect [of an apology]. You might say it’s all abstract and won’t do anything, but at the bottom of people’s hearts, it still rings true and can lead to more unity,” he said. Drawing on Obama’s speech, panelist Kareemah L. Sabur ’09, the community outreach director...
...often in this campaign, Obama's rhetoric has been gorgeous but abstract, ear candy for the educated. But this simple statement, equating his black surrogate father and his white surrogate mother, was something any fair-minded person could understand: almost every one of us has an uncle or a grandmother good for at least two jaw-droppers every Thanksgiving. Yes, the Senator was comparing apples and freight trains: Wright's hate speech was as public and consequential as the grandmother's stereotypes were private, but Obama came to this comparison only after he had unequivocally condemned his pastor for having...
Then there are Joe Bradley's big bright canvases, such as Cavalry, 2007, which combine the resolutely abstract boxes and rectangles of Minimalist and color-field painting into cartoon-character formations. It's a bit of an art-history joke, and one that sculptor Joel Shapiro played with more than 20 years ago in 3-D. But Bradley's ferocious colors and color contrasts give his work a weirdly commanding presence, one made weirder still by all those infantile silhouettes...
Communication, in its abstract form...