Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approach, Atget was straight forward. He worked without reference to other arts and aloof from the aesthetic controversy that was still raging in America as to whether or not photography was an art. Relying simply on his feeling for subject and composition, he produced sensitive portraits of a city and an era. Atget used no camera tricks; there is no special cropping or double exposures or any of the hundred other devices that some photographers have since used to make photography merit the name of art. The art in Atget was his ability to see and this quality still distinguishes...
...bright young proconsuls of the advance guard, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, added to this pattern of approach a breathtaking fervency and single-mindedness. Following Clausewitz' formula for successful military attack, they concentrated all the forces they could muster on the smallest possible problem: to express what they happened to be feeling in the process of painting. The results were huge canvases excitedly smeared, spattered, daubed, dribbled and gobbed with color in the shape of freewheeling overall designs, as if the artists had been playing with paints and got carried away. They were not as formless and unconsidered...
...Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney. Instead of passing judgment, Sweeney holds, the critic should try to "draw the attention of the public to something he has found worthy of attention and enjoyable-and to tempt the public also to enjoy it. He has to be humble in his approach if he is to get the most from his observation of art's constantly changing face...
...H.D.C., or Aesthetic, approach to college drama emphasizes the need for competence and suggests that all those who wish to perform in H.D.C. productions should first go through a training period. This amounts to an attempt to legislate a return to the H.D.C.'s accredited actors and the comparative amateurs made clear, the snob appeal might well be strong, leading to the development of casts and out-casts...
...difference in approach comes from a substantial reason: Williams has received heavy drubbings from the varsity in their last two meetings. In 1951 the Crimson won, 21 to 4, and a year later the score...