Word: abstracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for one of his highly abstract nudes...
...spring opening of the government-sponsored National Salon of Plastic Arts, he noted that a new museum devoted to surrealism and abstract painting had recently been opened in the capital. No Peronista, he let it be known, would have any truck with such decadent trash...
...Failures in art," he said, "take refuge in abstract art, in morbid art, in perverted art-in short, in infamous art. These failures are like a leper who . . . insists on exhibiting his awful ulcers . . . [They] stimulate themselves with cocaine, morphine, marijuana, alcohol and snobbism . . . There is no room for abstract or morbid art in . . . the Peronista doctrine, for Peronismo is a doctrine of love, of perfection, of altruism, which soars with a superhuman quality into the skies. Peronismo is a doctrine of the virtues of a people . . . who know what is beautiful and what is ugly, who can distinguish...
...perfect seriousness, Rose speaks of creating a "new medium of artistic expression." Half abstract and half symbolic, his new medium requires a highly sophisticated audience, appeals more to the mind than to the eye. He uses light bulbs in his religious paintings, Rose explains, "to represent the eternal light of Jesus Christ by something which people think of when they think of light. I wanted to get away from the historical representation of the Crucifixion to emphasize that it is something still happening...
...love for the poor. We must free them to work for us, give them the right to paint on our walls, and they will tell our great story as it has not been told in 500 years." To those who would draw the line at the abstractionists he says: "Abstract art has as much a place in church as the organ music of Bach...