Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other jobs-as domestic servants, for instance. On another occasion he reproduced a blob of pigment in the Times, then proceeded to subject it to the kind of analysis that an avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire on the prevalent gobbledygook, and by implication at least, it lumped all abstract expressionism together as one big hoax...
...interest in other forms of writing, however, has remained basic and permanent. For Miss Gordimer, the need to communicate feelings and ideas is the nucleus around which the story takes shape and substance. "You want to say something. It comes from inside. It's a terribly selfish thing. You want to express yourself. Because other people are fundamentally like you, they find it interesting...
Unlike last year, when the Crimson sextet was minus a few men because of injuries, everybody is in good shape and ready, Weiland noted, adding, 'But if we go into the game too overconfident we're going to get knocked off. We can't fool around...
...striving toward the limitless. To Rothko, almost everything depends on the viewer's being able to approach a painting as a pure and unique experience, for which he should not be prepared. The impact of color, the electric shimmer of an edge, the intensity of a shape must alone bear the message. There should be no associations, only sensation: since the viewer should recognize nothing, there should be no barriers to his flight...
...define the difference between their faith and his own: "If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man." Unresolved at his death, the conflict gave a tensile shape to everything he wrote, and serves to illustrate Yeats's aphorism: "Of our argument with others, we make rhetoric, of our argument with ourselves, we make poetry...