Word: geometricized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone once said that avant-garde movements inevitable lose their momentum, citing Impressionism and the hippie movement as classic examples of his theory. Yet the art of Malet is fortunate: Created in an age so befuddled by every kind of "-ism" from Fauvism to Cubism to Dadaism, and with new...
Schmandt-Besserat, 43, a French-born assistant professor of art and an expert on the ancient uses of clay, bases her theory on studies started in 1969. For decades archaeologists had been puzzled by the great numbers of small, geometric clay tokens-some as old as 10,000 years-discovered...
For all those in Fine Arts 171 and anyone else who is attracted to "spots and dots" (as the 171'ers affectionately refer to modern art.) Graphics I at 168 Newbury has an exhibit of Josef Albers who is almost sure to pop up on the 171 syllabus soon. Albers...
UNGARO, on an Oriental jag, splashed landscape prints across many of his skirts. Exotic evening dresses were modernistic geometric renderings of the kimono, with wide sashes at the waist and necklines that sometimes slashed to the sash. A shrewd departure, considering that 20% of haute couture clients nowadays are Japanese...
Harvey Quaytman, paintings and drawings, through Nov. 6. Charcoal and acrylic on board can be trendy mixed-media creations, but Quatyman's remain intellectual works. His simple geometric forms seem to move the color over the surface; the result is harmonious, one grasps it all at once--yet not static...