Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder of the two is Fausto Pirandello, 58, son of Italy's late, famed Dramatist Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello, and one of Italy's most decorated and honored artists (first prize at the Sixth Quadriennale, Taranto Prize in 1949, Fiorino Prize in 1953...
Made of reinforced concrete, in 132 numbered panels weighing 110 tons, the bas-relief lay face down last week in back of Nivola's summer home at East Hampton, N.Y. Seven huge platform trucks will soon transport it to Hartford, Conn., where it will be fitted to the steel...
Strong & Harsh. In the rubble Hitler left, only the hardiest roots of modern art managed to survive. Of the younger generation, the strongest figures combine something of the expressive color of Nolde with the abstract structure handed down by Kandinsky. A leading example is the whiplike abstraction and sweeping, calligraphic...
Beneath all the froth is a superb, incisive character study of the two men. Bourvil's slow mind can concentrate only on moving the meat. But to Gabin, a famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means...
¶ Provincetown, Mass., which thought it had seen its great days when Eugene O'Neill's players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most...