Word: nonabstract
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...their own answer. When the two young artists were about to be married in 1951, their friend and neighbor Pablo Picasso slipped into their modest apartment in Vallauris, north of Cannes, and by way of a wedding present proceeded to decorate the drab walls. His sketches were charming and nonabstract. In an odd corner he painted a thoroughly representational bloomer girl, to remind Jean of his bachelor days. In the bedroom he put a nude, and in the kitchen, still lifes of fish and fowl. In the living room the master did a ten-ft. allegorical mural in which Huguette...
...abstract sound; scorns, protests all attempts to translate him, to fit him into patterns of human thought. In deference to this idea the ballet directed by Leonide Massine, the setting and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, all aimed at abstraction of movement and form. But there was a libretto for nonabstract minds to follow. Many a humble spectator welcomed this crutch to keep up with " The Hand of Fate" as well as with " Rite of Spring...