Word: themeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have eyes, you don't much mind the visual digressions Mann makes from his threadbare plot. Themeless though he would appear (by contrast to Antonioni, whose images contribute so much to characterization), and gratuitous though his beautiful compositions may be, Mann has done an exceptional piece of work...
Then came a wry event. Abstract paintings by a fiery Catalonian named Antoni Tàpies won a prize for Spain at the Venice Biennale, followed by first prize at the Carnegie International. It dawned on Madrid that themeless abstractions have no power to topple a government but could serve to speak to the world of a more modern, talented and open Spain...