Word: semi-abstraction
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...hates: "When I get discouraged I look at Picasso's stuff and then I feel better about what I'm doing." He himself once flirted with cubism, "but I abandoned the lady very early and since then she has prospered under other patronage." The semi-abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, with their pinheads and pierced bodies (TIME, May 16), make Epstein smile. "A good cheese is not interesting because it's got holes in it," he says. "It's because of the quality of the cheese...
...subject dear to his heart, is confronted with the request: 'Will you now give us seventy-five words on what you've just said?' " ¶ Georgia O'Keeffe spent only sev en well-chosen words in describing her latest painting - a starkly splen did, semi-abstract rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge (see cut) : "This is the Brooklyn Bridge...
Young Jacob Lawrence was shy, but he felt at home; he had long ago decided to become a painter. His mother had encouraged him when he was still a kid: "It kept me off the streets." Within a few years, his flaming, semi-abstract pictures of Negro life hung in half a dozen top U.S. museums, and won him three Rosenwald fellowships. Only 30 now, Jacob Lawrence is the nation's No. 1 Negro artist...
...still going strong but his new show in a Manhattan gallery last week lacked something-the schoolgirl perhaps-which made that first exhibition memorable. Dada was a granddad now. And nowadays the visitors brandished checkbooks instead of hatchets. Instead of a live little virgin they found merely a semi-abstract painting distinguished by two nobbed streaks representing breasts or eyes, and entitled Foolish Virgins...
...began to be an artist in Druskiensiki, Lithuania, when he was only eight. His earliest works were carefully painted white in imitation of the plaster casts he saw at school. At 18, Lipchitz hotfooted to Paris, became the youngest member of the Cubist group, quickly developed the muscular, semi-abstract style...