Word: abstractionism
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Parisians, who have long been glutted and lately bored with the abstractions of their own compatriots, may be somewhat intrigued by the extremes to which abstraction has been stretched in the U.S. But a traveling U.S. exhibit which included the works of such conservatives as Hopper, Burchfield and Wyeth would...
The Temple Medal (no cash) for the best oil, awarded in the past to such masters as Whistler, Winslow Homer and George Bellows, went to Louis Guglielmi of Manhattan for his New York 21, an expert semi-abstraction. Lithuanian-born Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz admitted that he was bucked up when...
Cézanne drew clumsily, and comforted himself with the thought that "pure drawing is an abstraction ... as everything in nature has color . . . When the color is rich, the form is at its height." For clarity of line he substituted complexity of tint, building his pictures with painted dabs that...
Contrasting to Klee's cubism and abstraction is the sculpture of Gerhard Marcks. Unfortunately, Allied bombing destroyed most of Marck's work, and it is practically impossible to gather together a representative sampling. A majority of the forms shown--cast in bronze--are long, lean, and austere. There are, however...
Cooke, who has studied under the Parisian modern, Abe Rattner, is the most advanced of the group. Although his paintings have a fiery tone, they communicate powerful and lucid feelings. He shows a remarkable awareness of color relationships and exhibits a confident, though hasty, use of the brush. His "Three...