Word: abstractionism
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Sixty artists are represented, and their mostly large-scale works tightly cover the museum walls. Because the art is not grouped by themes, it is difficult to decide whether their arrangement is wonderfully transparent or transparently absent. Group shows force viewers to question whether those traditional distinctions of style, between...
The production design aptly showcases the precarious and frighteningly real world of Miss Julie. Costume designer Clint Ramo's accurate and beautiful 1880s costumes, complete with exaggerated bustles and full livery, highlight the importance of external appearance to class distinction, while set designer Susan Roger's hybrid set is itself...
The museum has a collection of 1920s central European abstraction, including works by Paul Klee, El Lissitzy and Wassily Kandinsky.
In this he was right, and he was right too in his belief that if you scratched any American abstraction, you would find a landscape not far below the surface. This was part of the deep sympathy that ran between Phillips and Dove: a belief that "abstraction" was not autonomous...
Maybe it's not such a surprise. The standard version of modern art history--the story that moves through the Impressionists and Cezanne to Cubism, and from there through ever greater reaches of stylization, psychic turmoil and abstraction--has been under pressure for years to admit developments that can't...