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...instead of holding a mirror up to nature, art could mirror the inner world of the artist himself. The methods for doing this-abstraction and distortion-were as old as doddering modern art itself (i.e., almost a century), and had already been explored by older native sons from Arthur Dove to Stuart Davis (TIME...
...experience at all, unless it be that of images swimming in the tight-shut eye. Hartley's German Officer deals with a mood, not a visual image. Davis' Eggbeater beats the eggbeater into unrecognizable shape. Hofmann's Red Trickle celebrates an activity rather than a perception. Dove's Abstraction is a generalization of nature, flat yet elusive. Feininger's Gelmeroda multiplies and rearranges what he saw to create an altogether new equation. O'Keeffe's From the Plains is emotion reduced to pattern, and Sheeler's Golden Gate distills design from objective...
...Arthur Dove (1880-1946) was a magazine illustrator who saved his money for a pilgrimage to Paris in 1907. What he saw of the Fauves and cubists caused him to put off artistic facility and take on a lonely, lifetime mission. Dove returned to the U.S. and joined the stable of Photographer-Dealer Alfred Stieglitz, the first man in America to back modern art. Dove, painting on a Connecticut farm, soon earned a first of his own; he was the first to dispense altogether with representation. Yet Abstraction No. 2, done in 1910, is imbued with the qualities of nature...
...early days of the United Nations, when each delegate seemed to feel the wing beats of the Dove of Peace, the idea came up of opening each session with a prayer. Letters poured in supporting the proposal, but in 1949 a special committee finally killed it. Reason: doctrinal differences might be inflamed, and the godless, i.e., Russia & Co., might be disgruntled. In fact, Russia had made it clear that it would be disgruntled. A recommendation calling for a minute of silence was the substitute passed by a bare majority out of 15 committee members-Russia and France, among others, abstained...
Last week a children's game in the Parker manner was sweeping Communist Hungary. Called The Road to Peace, it requires each player to move a Picasso dove around the board until it reaches a center spot marked "Peace." A throw of the dice that lands the player in a Red City (i.e., cities in the Soviet bloc, plus Tunis and Guatemala) earns him an extra turn. Green Cities (London, Paris, Caracas, etc.) carry a penalty of one turn. But woe betide the player who lights on a Black City, for he must promptly leave the game altogether...