Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT kind of conception of duty is it which demands that one should give up love and life, in the interest of some abstraction like the Monarchy or the Empire or the Church, all of which in the end draw their sustenance from love and life? The churchmen, high and...
Water colorist Sgouros, certainly O'Hara's peer as a craftsman, is not bound by so highly conventionalized a style. He is a realist whose mastery of the medium and occasional experimentation put him above the "pretty picture" painters of houses, landscapes, and boat yards. Sgouros' most impressive quality is...
This year one glance was enough to tip off the jurors to what was in store. Of 35 oils hanging in the central gallery, only three (including one by the late Fernand Léger) were remotely representational. The steadily mounting flood of abstract painting, instead of subsiding, has now...
Kwakiutl chief once explained. Warriors, squaws and children worked feverishly to amass a sufficiently impressive array of gifts to "put down" a competitor at the next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root...
Top sculpture award went to another Italian, 45-year-old Sculptor Mirko, for his bronze, stone and copper figures. Not until the jury got to the 18 lesser awards did a West Coast artist finally score: a purchase award to Kentucky-born San Franciscan Ralph du Casse, 39, for his...