Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For his Unknown Prisoner, Butler chose something between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must...
If Butler's symbolism made sense to the modern-minded jury, it brought outraged howls from conservatives, who wanted something a little warmer and more human. To most it looked like the same sterile brand of impersonal abstraction that so disappointed U.S. critics when the American regional prizewinners were...
"You're clever enough to sink a ship," he was once told, "but you'll never draw." Piper did draw, though-feathery studies of lighthouses, piers and harbors. Then, in Paris in 1933, he met Braque and switched to abstraction. "It wasn't popular," he remembers, "but...
McNiff closes his report with the abstraction that it is bad policy to give one College group special privileges. This hits the full equality boys at their weakest point, but it is a doubtful argument. While the commuters may gain equality, they are in several ways a segment apart, with...
Lifting Lights. The standouts of the show are the few independent painters who highball down the middle of the road, avoiding the easy-riding ruts of sheer abstraction and mere representation. Fifty such men might have lifted the whole exhibition into brilliance; the few who are represented at Venice shine...