Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, says Kirk, the ancient notion that teachers are Bearers of the Word, servants only of the Truth, has fallen into disrepute. In place of Truth "derived from apprehension of an order more than natural or material," such scholars as John Dewey and Sidney Hook "early became attached to democracy...
NICOLAS DE STAËL, 41, born in St. Petersburg, son of a Czarist cavalry officer, who paints in heavy slabs of color on the canvas (TIME, March 30, 1953), which he maintains is not abstraction: "I am trying to give as much as possible of myself with a maximum...
On his outings around Paris, Mathieu drives a Rolls-Royce, and according to one admirer he "is quite capable of making long trips through the most beautiful countryside without even seeing a thing." A laudatory essay in the current Art News seems to show that Mathieu paints as he drives...
THE Chicago Art Institute's 61st annual roundup of contemporary American painting and sculpture, which opens next week, will prove once again that the nation's artists are mostly sold on some form of abstraction. Doubtless most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win...
Which way is U.S. art heading? There have been some signs that it is going away from abstraction. But that is not the trend shown by what museums buy. Last week the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center had on view its fifth biennial show of new acquisitions by U.S. museums...