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Duchamp exhibited a urinal as art. He shocked New York when he was in his 20s with a painting supposedly of a nude woman descending a staircase, which had no woman visible, just strange, machine-like, abstract forms. All three artists did parody paintings, mocking taste. Ray painted in a bright, cheerfully kitsch style recalling décor in the background of middle-class apartments in old Hollywood movies. Picabia painted textured abstracts that had nothing but a few primitive dots on them resembling enlarged points of light. (In 1950, the art critic for TIME said they...
While Ray did fashion shoots for a living, he also produced beautiful and inventive photos that advanced the medium. In various hijinks experiments, he photographed ordinary things around the house and gave them such a rich depth of tone that they seemed beautiful, like abstract art. He called a photo of an egg whisk Man after himself and the whole of humanity. And he created new techniques, including the Rayogram: the contours of everyday objects magically emerge on paper without anything actually being photographed. The Rayograms are ethereal, light-filled and lovely, though still obviously merely a saucepan...
...manufacturer said that previous articles that were critical of hip protectors had made a clear distinction that their conclusions were restricted to hard-padded hip protectors. HipSaver’s models are soft-padded. “The difficulty is that all of the media picked up on the abstract,” Goodwin said. “Some of the old customers have stopped buying,” Goodwin said, adding that he has heard of at least one other hip protector company “having difficulties.” Stating that there has been both experimental...
...Hancock became a core member of what is known as Davis’s “second great quintet.” Through albums like “In A Silent Way” and “Filles de Kilimanjaro” the group fused the abstract, single-chord song forms of free jazz with the electric instruments of funk and rock, creating a sub-genre called “fusion” that held tremendous sway during the 1970s and 80s. Hancock left Davis’ group in 1968 and began a long experimental relationship with funk...
...show grows patchier. Italian design was stellar during this era, but speed-related examples are scarce. A 1969 Olivetti typewriter symbolizes what qualified then for a new-found velocity in communications, while minidresses from Emilio Pucci and Missoni sneak into the show on the dubious grounds of their swerving, abstract patterns. A room dedicated to the flashing graphics of the 1960s Kinetic Art movement serves only to remind us that its finest exponents - Jean Tinguely and Alexander Calder - came from elsewhere...