Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover, research is highly favored in the University's own policy. But the main drawback to such a plan is the danger that it might deteriorate into just another laboratory, turning out endless graphs and abstract curves which will make little impression on journalists trained to look for concrete evidence. Compared to the possibilities mentioned thus far, however, this alternative seems to be more plausible for Harvards' purpose...
...jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with plumes and ornaments, massive, configured in snake-like coils and curves. Baltimore's show includes many of the best-preserved Maya figures of gods and warriors, huge-nosed and somnolent; often squashed into semi-abstract patterns...
...burst with laughter or weep with shame; any one of these Indians is a sister of that ancient. . . . The decoration is always simple, taken from familiar things of nature and craft; beauty of hard earth and birds, better than Solomon in all his glory; and put together with an abstract geometry such as only this people after the Greeks of Crete have possessed...
Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...
Masterpieces at the Carnegie show in abstract or other methods of painting were conspicuously rare. Second prize ($600) was awarded for Woman Near a Table, a semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many...