Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surveying the Manhattan scene last week, however, Critic Devree hopefully concluded that "the more extreme movement in abstraction has entered upon a period of revaluation. In much of the nonobjective or expressionist abstract work clear elements of figuration and suggestion of landscape inspiration appear increasingly in the paintings. If this...
The new paintings were markedly more abstract than his earlier work. There was an architectural quality about most of them, expressed in long, vertical-lined backgrounds that gave a skyscraper dimension to his compositions. In Janitor, one of the show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with...
Kenneth Lipstreu makes a living designing layouts for advertisements, paints in his spare time. His Transformer applies Picasso's cubist experiments of 40-odd years ago to the present-day industrial scene. Perhaps because it sticks to an established tradition of abstraction, his picture is much easier to take...
Meanwhile, Choreographer Balanchine is busy polishing two brand-new ballets (his 80th and 81st), which will have their premieres later this season. They will give collectors of Balanchine paradoxes fresh material for study, for they are as dissimilar in substance as any two ballets in the man's repertory...
Abstraction. In Seattle, John E. Trimmer told police that he had bolted his apartment door, put $40 in a sock, put the sock on his foot and crawled into bed, next morning woke up to find the sock still on his foot, the $40 missing.