Word: abstractly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serenity of his own garden and his grey-carpeted studio. Almost no human figures marred the privacy of the world he painted. Aside from his technique, and a faintly romantic air, there was nothing traditional about that world; Nash's water colors and oils alike were halfway abstract. "Nature we need not deny," he once explained, "but art ... should control...
...results were varied and poetic as they were abstract: he painted the sea to look like a flight of cold, curling steps, and made forests echo the architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric...
...poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less successful because it leaves sensuous impressions and starts trying to delve into the abstract...
...exhibition traced Matisse's wavering, laborious progression from his early copy of a dead fish by Chardin, gleaming in mahogany darkness, to the abstract paper cutouts, brighter than circus posters, which he makes nowadays. Advancing room by room, visitors saw that Matisse had put increasing kick in his colors and bite in his outlines as he grew older...
...almost never thinks about it, and is complacently unaware that there may be any reason to. Theology, the intellectual system whereby man sorts out his thoughts about faith and grace, enjoys much less popular appeal than astrology. With its "devolutionary theopantism" * and "axiological eschatology,"* theology is jaw-breakingly abstract. And its mood is widely felt to be about as bracing as an unaired vestry...