Word: semi-abstraction
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...semi-abstract temperas with such titles as Beatitudes, Cybernetics and Everyman...
...churchmen away from the sweetly realistic style so long in fashion. The Netherlands' Johann Thorn Prikker, who died in 1932, has done as much as any stained-glass designer to set the new direction for his German colleagues. He was represented in the show by two brilliant, semi-abstract windows: one with a dove to symbolize the Holy Spirit and the other with a fish to symbolize the Christ. More somber were Ignatius Geitel's windows illustrating the Apocalypse, one of which showed an apocalyptic horseman with a greenish face, red hair and yellow halo...
Father Anthony J. Lauck, 43, presented a statue as simple and serene as Painter Lebrun's canvas was noisy. It was a semi-abstract study of a Monk at Prayer, showing hands clasped and face upraised, chiseled out of rough grey limestone. Sculptor Lauck took several months to turn it out; his other duties keep him from working full-time with hammer & chisel. But he has been chipping away, off & on, for 20 years, and he has studied with such famed sculptors as Ivan Mestrovic and Carl Milles. Today Lauck exhibits his peaceful religious statues from time to time...
...exhibit as a whole showed once again that realism in the U.S., as in Europe, has been on the wane for the last 50 years. Before the turn of the century, Albert Pinkham Ryder was laughed at for his dreamy, semi-abstract seascapes. Successors such as John Marin made abstraction an important part of U.S. art history, and today it is the language of hundreds of young American painters...
Peppy Walter Paepcke, 53, is one of a growing tribe of businessmen who go in for modern art. As board chairman of Chicago's big Container Corp. of America, Paepcke finds semi-abstract paintings not only enjoyable but also useful-they make eye-catching ads. During World War II, Paepcke ran a series of such full-page magazine ads celebrating the U.N. and, almost incidentally, Container Corp.'s boxes (TIME, April 30, 1945). Afterward he launched a second series on the 48 states, plus four U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Last week that four-year series...