Word: abstractionism
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To David Shapiro of Manhattan, the bright Italian sun seemed on fire; he was painting his skies a burning yellow. Sculptor Robert Becker of Far Rockaway, N.Y. was working in black screen, exhibited an abstraction that looked rather like a woman's fancy hat. Others had turned to Italy...
You may remember the recent story in TIME's ART section, describing an exhibition of the favorite 20th century American paintings of seven art critics (TIME, Feb. 25). "The art critics of New York are not without courage," said a New York Herald Tribune review of the show. "One...
Starting out to be an artist himself, Eliot tried all kinds of painting, from "tight realism to complete abstraction." In 1940 he made a gallery of his Boston apartment to exhibit the work of artist friends. But soon after that he began painting less & less and turned more & more toward...
Spring Showers. The exhibition looks like a historical survey of abstract painting. Kandinsky, whose basic idea was that painting, like music and mathematics, can be purely abstract, sowed the seeds of the movement and cultivated its growth throughout his life. He painted the 20th century's first all-out...
Last week, thanks to wide newspaper and radio coverage, Melancholia was the best-known abstraction in Canada. Lealess accepted two U.S. television bids, including an offer to appear with his masterpiece on We, the People. He could also boast a blurb for his painting from an expert who knew what...