Word: abstractionism
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This viewpoint holds for all the great French masters from Manet to Picasso, and still carries dynamite. It gives the artist the prerogative of subordinating the subject of his picture to the painting itself. It also opens the door to distortion and abstraction-the twin angels, or demons, of modern...
The Big Parade. In the U.S. the parade included the eight artists shown on this and the following pages. The U.S. pioneers all employed varying degrees of distortion and/or abstraction. But their similarity stops right there. Seeing the contrasts in their art, few would take them for countrymen, let alone...
¶Arthur Dove (1880-1946) was a magazine illustrator who saved his money for a pilgrimage to Paris in 1907. What he saw of the Fauves and cubists caused him to put off artistic facility and take on a lonely, lifetime mission. Dove returned to the U.S. and joined the...
Inward from War. The drawings were obviously studies for paintings Marc hoped to make some day. Each was a fully thought out composition and had been executed with an extraordinary mingling of boldness and delicacy. They showed that Marc was still moving towards abstraction, might eventually have grown as abstract...
Advocate readers will be pleased to find that, at least as far as the prose goes, the November issue is a bit above average. If none of the stories has a consummate finish, all of them have some very interesting facets. The most intriguing piece is a fragment from a...