Word: semiabstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heel of a Shoe. The woodprints that flourished in 17th-19th century Japan were called Ukiyo-e, meaning "Picture of the Passing World." They were just that: pictures of solemn actors, sprightly geishas, idyllic landscapes. Japan's modern wood-printers turned to semiabstract compositions, employ many techniques known to their forerunners; e.g., they often wet their paper to obtain a certain texture, but also experiment with leaves, string, the heel of a shoe to get special effects with an ingenuity Western printmakers have not displayed...
Painting in two distinct styles, Sylvia Carewe on one hand picks up her beat from the visual excitement and energy of Manhattan, transposes it into semiabstract scenes, e.g., an air view of Broadway done with splash and sparkle. With her other (and heavier) hand, she trowels on paint inches thick, won French critics' praise for a "violent, colorful art, in hard contrasts, not exempt from cold lyricism...
...style. They are painted quickly and slickly on a type of beaverboard (easier to store, less likely to damage) that is cut to fit nine frame sizes, ranging from very small (8 in. by 10 in.) to rather big (72 in. by 20 in.). Whether they are semiabstract, magazine-cover American or postcard romantic, most of the unoriginal originals have the restful quality of being reminiscent without demanding a second glance...
That Painter Calcagno remains emphatically from San Francisco is demonstrated by his semiabstract paintings, saturated with rich California earth tones and the shifting, fog-ridden horizons of the Pacific Coast. Says Calcagno of his European adventures: "With the death of Matisse, the great, great tradition of French painting is about worked out. There are still major figures like Picasso and Braque, but they are no longer dealing with the immediate thing. The younger painters are seeking a way out. Some of them think...