Word: abstractionism
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At 76, Marin is a flowing-haired nature-lover who has no interest in transcribing nature, and a modern artist who finds himself "completely unsympathetic with cubism or other forms of abstraction, or with surrealism. I belong to no ism. I haven't the time. Shakespeare belonged to no...
The problem of the educator is, above all, to touch, awaken, perhaps even transform the student. Proceeding from small things that can be seen and felt, to large things that can be dealt with only in abstraction, is one of the surest ways of igniting the diffident.
"A novelist has no business with types; they are the property of economists and politicians and advertisers and other professional bores of our period. . . . The Common Man does not exist. He is an abstraction invented by bores for bores. Even you, dear Mrs. Schultz, are an individual.
Her outburst touched off a barrage of letters to the London Times. Pudgy, pompous Lord Brabazon wrote that he thought he saw a painting of what seemed to be broken iron castings. Matisse had titled it A Recumbent Woman. (Huffed Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple...
The fault lies in the Army system, which allows any small mind anywhere in the chain of command to destroy such a program. An abstraction like the dignity of man was particularly vulnerable and abhorrent to the small minds. The result was that the majority of American soldiers throughout their...