Word: semiabstractions
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...refugee from a sculpture class than a central banker. In fact, he is. In the two years before taking up his Treasury Department post, Solomon spent full time chipping away at blocks of white oak or molding bronze in his suburban Washington studio. His style in sculpture is modern semiabstract, but in money politics his mode is classic conservative...
Armstrong's semiabstract paintings of Ireland's wild west coast sell for about $800 in Dublin and as much as three times that abroad...
Working from scale drawings and with the aid of the scaffolder, the artist finished his masterwork in just 2½ days. The result: a 50-ft. by 60-ft. bucolic semiabstract that shows 36-ft.-high green grass growing, a blue sky, a white cloud and a red and yellow towerlike structure. There is also an arrow pointing topside-in case anyone needs to know which...
...Plavinsky's works in New York is in fact called The Voices of Silence. It is a semiabstract panel composed of fragments of Moslem designs, a hand print, a feather, a fish, cruciform mazes and futuristic line designs. Prayer is a pen-and-ink drawing of two hands pressed together, with passages lettered beneath in a Russian so archaic that it is said that even Slavonic scholars have been unable to decipher it. Coelacanth is a brightly colored portrait of the prehistoric fish, his wizened face gleaming like a phosphorescent fossil. Plavinsky, says Mrs. Stevens, is entirely unaware that...
Lost in the shuffle were the prices that other modern works set; most were lower than dealers hoped. A Milton Resnick abstraction brought only $550. A 1948 semiabstract De Kooning brought $9,000. Abstract expressionists won no enthusiasm. A huge Mathieu went for a paltry $5,250. Hartigan hit $3,000 but had a low of $700; Okada hit $2,000, Marca-Relli $3,000. The real surprise of the evening was a quiet, 1952 still life of ceramic ware, plain as a cupboard and less abstract than a Cezanne, by 73-year-old Giorgio Morandi. Winning...