Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...named, as she fuses sterling silver into intricate, elegant and seemingly impossible designs. In her words, she is "open to enchantment" and takes inspiration from the grandeur of nature and the traditional crafts of Borneo. Her playful, bold, futuristic design sense produces pieces that are edgy and abstract, yet lyrical and sensuous. Showcases lined with desert litter, sand and slate display jewelry with names like Sea King, Pillow or Little Devil. Morris's newest Organic limited edition of wearable art pieces includes rings representing fire and water, massive bands set with cabochon stones or carved with geometric symbols, open-work...
Schauer said he does not believe that the Florida controversy will have a significant effect on the legitimacy of the Bush presidency. He said that Americans tend to focus on concrete issues, not on abstract notions of legitimacy...
...with top notch players and willing experimentalists, MMW have managed to put themselves on the map by making music that is really more a dialogue between opposite elements like traditional jazz structure and wild experimentation. Though some criticize the band for often approaching the limits of meaning in their abstract wanderings, it is the incredible, seamless continuity between disparate elements that gives their music its real significance. Their real skill lies not simply in their abilty in weaving dense sonic tapestries or deftly reinterpreting Hendrix classics, but in the way that "Manic Depression" can suddenly but not joltingly come boiling...
...under the influence of his teacher, Schoenberg. These pieces reveal how quickly Webern embraced his teacher's concept of a completely atonal music, which had only fully materialized a year earlier with Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, op. 11. Webern's pieces, however, already point to a more abstract atonality and are characteristically Webernesque in their brevity and obsession with detail. Schulte and Winn played the faster movements especially well, again showing a real sense of musical unity...
...stapling to your right. "Everyone was loose and free and easy," Fagin says of the pseudo-utopia he and his writer friends created. "I know it seems idyllic, but maybe it was." Like the School of Paris in painting, the New York School of Poets-closely linked to emerging abstract expressionist artists-was simply a group of writers defined by their common vocation and narrow geographical living space...