Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invented constructivism? The question might once have seemed academic. But in the past decade as art has trended ever more sharply in the direction of hard-edged abstract geometry - in color-field and op painting, in kinetic and minimal sculpture, constructivism has been increasingly recognized as a wellspring of ideas that many of to day's artists find congenial and espouse as their...
SCHUBERT: String Quartets Nos. 13, 14 and 15 (Columbia ML 4831/2/3); HAYDN: Six Quartets, Op. 76 (Columbia ML 4922/3/4). Masterpieces of chamber music performed by the elegant Budapest Quartet...
...meant to give even the most inexperienced viewer a way to express compositions of his own, to allow him to share with the artist in the pleasure-and catharsis-of creation. But if catharsis implies tragedy, to most gallery-goers optional art ranks as high comedy. Milwaukee digs op primarily because...
Unity in Kinship. Documenta uses three castles to signal three trends. Striking the keynote in the Fridericianum are the signal-flag squares of German-born Josef Albers, who lives and works in the U.S. They are accompanied by the shaped, geometric and op canvases of his many European and American admirers. A room is lit with the disks of California's Robert Irwin (TiME, May 10). Highceilinged, cathedral-like galleries are filled with the gigantic rainbows of U.S. color-field painters and the authoritative sculpture of the U.S. minimalists...
Still, aside from the U.S. exhibit, there were numerous diversions. At the British pavilion, there was a dizzyingly impressive retrospective of Bridget Riley's op eyebinders, and the slender, stark sculptures of Phillip King-possibly the only man alive who has successfully united the minimal and the baroque. In the Japanese pavilion, the most promising young artist was clearly Jiro Takamatsu, 32, whose large-scale pastel platforms were built on weird exaggerations of Renaissance perspective, aimed at destroying the balance between real and imaginary worlds...