Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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History's verdict on the U.N. is still in the jury box. But Dag Hammarskjold is confident what it will be. "The U.N. is not just a product of do-gooders." he says. "It is harshly real." He once told an interviewer: "The day will come when men will...
WASHINGTON'S Pan American Union quietly put on view last week an exhibition calculated to raise the roof. The work of a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian named Oswaldo Guayasamin (pronounced guy-yah-sah-meait, and meaning, in Inca. "white bird flying"), it was as powerful as any...
These questions appear in what is perhaps their fullest complexity in the case of Professor Furry. The basic moral problem of informing on one's associates is present not only in abstraction, but reappears again and again because of the special procedural circumstances of the case.
The museum's walls were covered with moody, swirling blobs of color, as otherworldly as their titles (Strata No. 1, Tones of Silence, Pad '55). Only here and there does an oldtimer hold out. Ben Shahn in Second Super Market makes a tasteful composition out of wire grocery...
The selection shows a fair balance between realism and abstraction. Some attempts to "be modern" like Paul Biechel's abstraction "City and Street" betray a lack of technical skill or real imagination. Many of the best artists in the exhibit, however, do find natural expression in less realistic styles.