Word: abstractionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis doesn't consider himself an abstractionist; he tags himself as just a painter who has finally learned what not to paint. His father was Edward Wyatt Davis, art director of the Philadelphia Press (TIME, Oct. 29). His first teacher was Robert Henri, leader of the "Ash Can School" of painting, who scorned pastoral prettiness in art. In his teens Davis obediently wandered the streets of New York, sketching what he saw. He learned to love the rattling, ironwork kaleidoscope of city life, the eye-catching colors of chain-store fronts, gasoline pumps and taxicabs; the bright blinking...
...explain to them 'all about this modern art.' They want the answer in a series of pat phrases between drinks. But . . . unless you state your thesis clearly-from the ground up, you are simply adding to the sum of confusion on the subject." So writes Minnesota-born Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler in his new book, Why Abstract? (New Directions...
Like many of his kind, Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler (rhymes with kill-care smiler) writes more understandably than he paints. Besides teaching himself to paint. Hiler has been a saxophone player, a nightclub decorator, costume expert, Paris café philosopher, amateur psychoanalyst and author. He likes his present job ("serious research painting" in Santa Fe) best...
With the help of N. W. Ayer, Paepcke embarked on an ad program using modern art for illustration. The ads proved to be eye-catchers. Even though some-like Abstractionist Jean Helion's-were practically unsolvable riddles, the public seemed to like them. Convinced that the paintings packed a selling wallop, Paepcke next ordered copy boned down to one-sentence, telegraphic messages like "No land is strange to U.S. paper packages today...
...Jean Hélion, French-born abstractionist - for figure paintings of sharp-angled robotlike men & women...