Word: abstractionism
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Farndon's later experimentation with ever greater abstraction found a model in Munch's simplification of form and the Jugendstil's fragmentation of form through the juxtaposition of radically polarized colors as demonstrated by his Central Park. New York City and Relaxing under the Porch.
Leopold has been psychologically destroyed by his work, like the man in Havel's essay, "An Anatomy of Reticence," who experiences "the first moment of deterioration...when [his] artefact, [his] project for a better world, begins to expropriate his responsibility and identify, when the abstraction ceases to belong to him...
De Kooning is probably the most libidinal painter America has ever had. One sees him as the consummate anti-Duchamp, a permanent relief from over- theorized art, a man so in touch with the sources of his pictorial pleasure (the body of paint and the body of the world) that...
Such things make an artist feel old. As his followers were becoming more prominent, De Kooning was easing himself out of Manhattan, spending more and more time on the South Fork of Long Island. The flat potato fields, beaches and glittering air of that tongue of land must often have...
"America is this very weird place where we claim there's no hierarchy," explains Hitesh. "But in fact we are a very hierarchical society. However, the Q-RAC is a wonderful place because sports are really very non-hierarchical." Hitesh, however, admits that he's "never been there." (Undoubtedly allowing...