Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ A bold, hard, mechanistic abstraction hot off the easel of expatriate Frenchman Fernand Léger-The Great Julie, painted in 1945.
National Reflection. The 215-picture American show is far & away the better. It ranges in style from Norman Rockwell's familiar, realistic The Four Freedoms, which hangs at the entrance, to Josef Albers' Growing, a pure abstraction of irregularly shaped pink and green rectangles, hung in a corner...
The cacophony of extreme modernism blew loud in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated...
Painter Rattner's prizewinner was Kiosk, a near-abstraction in greens, yellows and a touch of purple. A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it." Sniffed the New York Times's...
Tuesday. Franklin Roosevelt needed a haircut. Tufts of grey hair stuck out over his ears, straggled wispily over the top of his head. Coatless, wearing a white shirt and plaid tie, he leaned back in his swivel chair and waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before...