Word: abstractly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, was the Women's National Press Club's choice for "woman of the year." Also huzzah'd: Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, 68, of Manhattan's Barnard College; All-But-Abstract Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, 58; Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 36; Novelist I. A. R. Wylie (The Young In Heart), 60; Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Esther Loring Richards, 60; Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster, 40; Radio Program Director Margaret Cuthbert, 52; New York Times Editorialist AnneO'Hare McCormick, sixtyish; International Business Machines Vice President Ruth...
...first step on the straight & narrow path of "nonobjective" art. It was not always so delightful as it seemed at first. He often had the feeling that he "was throwing a message, sealed in a bottle, into the sea." But gradually he decided that the prime tenets of abstract design-simplicity, harmony, contrast-could be applied to almost anything...
...show of Moholy's paintings and sculptures which opened in the Cincinnati Art Museum this week. Visitors smiled dutifully, but found the machine no more amusing and no less confusing than the rest of the show. Among Moholy's proudest creations are his "space modulators"-abstract, painted sculptures of transparent plastic. They are unsigned, titled by numbers and letters only, "as if they were cars, airplanes or other industrial objects." Explains Moholy: "My desire was to go beyond vanity into the realm of objective validity, serving the public as an anonymous agent...
Burchfield is gently suspicious of abstractionists like Picasso ("I don't think he is just sincere. He may be trying to put something over on the public"), but he sometimes uses abstract patterns himself, as in August Evening (see cut) in which elaborate, curlicued heat waves rise from the trees and housetops...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...