Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures hanging in the museum's pleasant galleries last week were proof that Mrs. Force's taste was catholic, usually sound. From George Luks's powerfully naturalistic study, The Wrestlers, dated 1905, to the stylized modernist canvases of Abraham Rattner and the obscure experiments of Baziotes and Gottlieb (see below), every excursion and detour of U.S. art was represented...
...Modernist Jackson Pollock, whose crisscrossed canvases sometimes resemble a battlefield seen from 40,000 feet or a culture of bacteria seen through a microscope, had heretofore escaped precise definition. Now he appeared in the vanguard of the new movement, flanked by such other ultra-ultras as William Baziotes and Adolph Gottlieb...
...Brand New Horror. To Delacroix, color was a means of expressing thought and feeling; he saw no point in mixing his pigments in slavish imitation of natural hues. And in time his heresy became modernist orthodoxy. Though his contemporaries sometimes considered him just a prodigiously talented nut, posterity had, in fact, carried his philosophy of art to a subjective extreme that would have left Delacroix himself speechless with horror...
...place would be up for sale, and rumor had it that a nightclub was dickering for the property. The Société felt that Delacroix, who had been a close friend of Chopin, would conceivably have found le jazz hot even weirder than the art of his modernist descendents...
...Models (1892), as their favorite painting in the show, and gave second place to Thomas Hovenden's Breaking the Home Ties (1890), a teary scene of family parting complete with sad-eyed Rover. The 1890s were voted the favorite decade, the 1880s next, and the 1930s (where the modernist vote was massed) third...