Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He was completely a child of abstract art. "Whatever interest I have in people," he once memorably told a reporter, "I have with them in daily contact. I don't want them walking around in my painting." Because of the extreme, not to say polemical, purity of his obsessions...
The writer was Pablo Picasso. If his sentiment seems odd (for someone who was to spend most of his life in France), we must blame the predominantly Francophile readings of art history for that. The real map of modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a...
There was something stirring about watching the choreographers watch Mallardi. All of them hoped to become dancers, or at least to make dance an important part of their lives. They were a small group devoting a huge amount of time and energy to dance and living an aesthetic experience at...
De Kooning's seriousness as an artist and his historical achievement are of very considerable magnitude, and will always invite judgment by the highest standards of modernism. But the work of his old age is not remotely of the same order as the late works of other old men...
This would not matter so much if the sculptures had any aesthetic relationships to sustain them as fiction, but they do not.