Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prizewinner Venturi, 35, a specialist in murals, submitted a plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing...
Second prize of $750 went to Joyce Treiman, 31, a cheerful, redheaded Winnetka housewife. Her winner was a highly colorful semi-abstraction called Circus Cyclists II, in which acrobatic cyclists, painted in green, loomed out of a circular composition bold with rich reds and blues.
Seen across a room, the picture looked rather like an abstraction. Somber in color, it had a surging quality as unsettling as any work by such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. A closer look justified the big tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground...
As in painting, abstract photographic experiments seem destined not to replace realism, but to teach it new tricks. One of the paradoxes of photography is the fact that never does life seem more unreal than when the realistic camera comes closest to it: when Harold Edgerton photographed a drop of...
¶ In Manhattan, a midtown gallery was showing stained glass by 18 living Americans, many of them well-known painters. Among the standouts was a rectangular abstraction by I. (for Irene) Rice Pereira, done in two layers of glass whose straight lines seemed to shift their positions whenever the viewer...