Word: formalistic
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...Abrams; $35). The other, the show's catalogue, is by Art Historian Eugene Goossen. It is what museum introductions should be but rarely are-warm and scholarly, steadily focused on Kelly's own experiences and their growth into form, and mercifully free from the imbricated jargon of formalist criticism...
...painting the rabbinical figures, village steeples, brides, bouquets, clocks and animals of Vitebsk. Back in the U.S.S.R. for the first time since 1922, the 85-year-old artist was visibly moved by an exhibition of his work, some of which has been kept under lock and key as too "formalist" for the Soviet censors. Did he remember the paintings? Tentatively touching his 1917 oil, The Wedding, Chagall replied with tears in his eyes: "More than you can imagine...
...possibilities for a film like this are almost limitless: now would be an excellent time for a look at the artists behind the work of sixties, now when the more formalist work of that period is coming under increasing attack and other tendencies are being reemphasized. A series of recent critical forays have taken the formalists to task. Harold Rosenberg's The De-Definition of Art attacks the whole notion of a unified New York School in general and the minimal aesthetic of Frank Stella and others specifically. Its author was one of the original champions of "action painting...
...this is true, it does not prevent his films from attaining that formal consistency traditionally characteristic of the greatest art. Renoir's films are visually so well-designed that a description of the style of each particular film constitutes a description of its particular meaning. What more can a formalist...
...world cannot create, liberate, support, or influence him. For Stravinsky the most perfect art is the most perfectly made. He emphasizes the fact that true Liberality of thought is not liberal, but visionary, in regard to both past and future. For the classical composer, the visionary is the formalist...