Word: abstractionist
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Although the beaches of both camps were well sprinkled with pelicans, the huge show had a hard core of excellence. Perhaps a score of the 559 pictures transcend both expressionist strutting and abstractionist wing-flapping, as well as prosaic egg-laying. For two such pictures-standouts among the six watercolor award winners-see following page...
...Piper had stayed in Paris, he might have been an abstractionist still. But he and his wife moved to a 17th century farmhouse in a valley near Henley-on-Thames. Gradually, the nature he saw around him drew him off on another track. His new style set out to blend geometric designs with the more amorphous shapes of reality-or, as he once expressed it, "a combination of a crystal and a potato, with neither predominating too much...
...Leonardo Cremonini is only 27 but a major Italian abstractionist. In his strongly sculptural Slaughterhouse, he gets his effects with bone-dry lights and luminous, wet darks that dominate but do not obscure the subject matter...
...Jean Bazaine (Dawn), like many a school-of-Paris abstractionist, sets himself the problem of compressing such vast and various things as seas and skies into swirling canvases...
...Clarion Call is an amusing study in pitch black and snow white, with Richard Wildmark slamming women and manhandling kittens with finesse and obvious relish. In The Last Leaf, Gregory Ratoff is the idealistic but frustrated abstractionist, born twenty years too soon; here, the part happily becomes more Ratoff than O. Henry...