Word: abstractionism
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However, this book is more than just an intro to the coldwater SoHo loft that is Frank Stella's mind. Stella has assigned himself the second task of uncovering the origin of the "crisis of abstraction," the growing consensus even among practitioners that contemporary abstract art bores the hell out...
The future of modern art, according to Stella, lies in an exploration of the third dimension, using the tools of perspective and shading that abstraction has ignored. But is this enough? The examples of "interior space" that Stella presents from his own works are not very convincing arguments; exploiting the...
Now the National Gallery of Art in Washington has filled it, persuasively, radiantly and definitively, with a show of 171 paintings done by Matisse in his early Nice years, assembled by Art Historians Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade. It should dispel any lingering suspicion that between 1916 and 1930, even...
The maestro of this process was Matisse. He was a mature painter of 48 when he started his first working sojourn in Nice after 1916. Just as Gauguin had carried his style preformed with him to Tahiti, so Matisse took his to the Cote d'Azur. One would logically expect...
Amid the rubble of Reykjavik are the makings of a deal that might have been, and a deal that might yet be. Until now, the idea of a "grand compromise" < has always been an abstraction: the U.S. would curtail the Strategic Defense Initiative in return for significant reductions in the...