Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in Rochester in 1912, "Dick" Harari had "a routine academic training" there and later a modern schooling under Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Back in the U.S. he did both realistic landscapes and abstract murals for the WPA, exhibited fool-the-eye still lifes at...
None of the younger men's watercolors could match those exhibited by oldtimers Charles Burchfield and John Marin, but there were a few that came close. Dong Kingman's rich, elaborate House Boat, an artful jumble of calligraphs set in perspective, was lively and bright as a flag...
The step-up in production was no mere statistical abstraction. Businessmen had plenty of solid evidence last week of the upsurge in the economy in 1950's first quarter. Electric utilities, which provide a prime share of industry's power and thus serve as a general barometer of...
I open a book at random. Discreetly buried beneath a mass of verbiage, of abstraction and obfuscation, we find the case of "Infant A." The case--presented here in condensed form--speaks for itself.
Modern Cadaver. Koerner's only similarity to most modern artists lies in his love of theorizing; he can talk as good a picture as he paints. His basic position is that painting has gone as far as possible toward abstraction, and must now return to storytelling: "Art must be...