Word: abstraction
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...great deal, as it turned out. Ripeness was all. Monet produced his best work after he turned 50, and it came to form the essential link between symbolism, with its cult of the nuance and its obsession with "getting behind" ordinary reality, and abstract painting. You can hardly imagine Jackson Pollock's all-over drip paintings, for instance, without the example of late Monet. But the real value of Monet's work lies not in what it predicted or how it was used by later artists but in itself: its intensity and breadth of vision, its lyrical beauty...
...pressure of the motif was sublimated in the demands of the painting. Monet also made quite conscious gestures to art history. His series of poplars near his house in Giverny -- their slender, stately trunks along the banks of the Epte reflected in the water and forming an almost abstract palisade, the S shape of their bushed-out tops strung along like a festive garland -- pays homage to French rococo, Fragonard in particular. Like his lyric images of a stretch of the Seine from 1896 to 1897, the paintings show how unrelentingly conscious Monet was of the abstract basis of design...
...patients and families face are not only ethical but also medical, financial, legal and theological. In the last days of a ravaging disease, when the very technology that can save lives is merely prolonging death, how is a family to decide whether to stop the treatment? By adopting the abstract reasoning of jurists and ethicists weighing legal arguments about privacy and moral arguments about mercy? Through some private intuition about how much sorrow they can bear and how much courage they can summon? Or by some blunt utilitarian calculation about whether it is more important to keep Grandmother alive than...
...show's most thrilling back-to-the-future revelations are the posters and advertisements and magazine layouts from the '30s, '40s and '50s that look contemporary. Lester Beall's Depression-era posters for the Rural Electrification Administration are spare and abstract and unsentimental, the perfect brainy New Deal agitprop. Herbert Bayer's virtuoso, typography-driven ads for the Container Corp. of America from the '50s and '60s look like avant- garde work from the late...
EVEN though law students don't back up their rhetoric, at least their rhetoric is right. Clark should not have closed the career office, and should be more committed to public interest law. The Law School should focus on more than teaching and research in the abstract...