Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What comes after abstraction? The question is probably still premature, but for trend-sifters who look to the younger generation for clues. Manhattan this week offers possibilities by the dozen. The Whitney Museum of American Art, in its first "Young America" show, is displaying 121 works by 30 artists under...
Through the Sound Barrier. The effort involved in reorienting around a central image seemed as hard to Ferren as "breaking through the sound barrier." In fact, some such move has long been in the offing. Abstractionist Willem de Kooning first tried it with his grotesque woman images (TIME, April 4...
Until last week Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's The Lark was chiefly a Broadway bird. In Hallmark Hall of Fame's skillful TV version, wispy Actress Julie Harris embraced the difficult role of St. Joan like the old friend it has been and, in...
"Abstract Impressionism." The Monet revival is one case where painters led the critics. Young artists, moving from the geometric form toward nature, suddenly found an inspiring kind of abstraction in Monet's late work. Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred Barr admits that he once thought Monet "just a...
¶Third prize ($750) to Rumanian-born Hedda Sterne, 41, for her luminous, evocative New York, shown in last summer's Venice Biennale. Wife of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, Hedda Sterne takes as her starting point the grid of city streets, blends them with Manhattan's neon lights, ends...