Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hand, conducted the New York City Ballet orchestra in ballet performances. At 46, a U.S. resident for 17 years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting B. H. Haggin goes so far as to call him "the greatest living creative artist...
...usual, the critics were kind. Liking the clear colors, clean shapes and easy sweep of Hancock's water colors, they winked at the abstract whatnots-right angles, arcs and bright balloons-with which he jazzes some of them up. Hancock, like elder Britons Paul Nash, John Piper and Graham Sutherland, divides his allegiance between traditional British landscape painting and abstraction; like them, he cannot bear to forsake either one altogether...
...surface on which the following ingredients have been poured: the contents of several tubes of paint of the best quality; sand, glass, various powders, pastels, gouache, charcoal ... It is important to state immediately that these 'colors' have not been distributed according to a logical plan (whether naturalistic, abstract or otherwise). This is essential. Jackson Pollock's paintings represent absolutely nothing: no facts, no ideas, no geometrical forms. Do not, therefore, be deceived by such suggestive titles as 'Eyes in Heat' or 'Circumcision'. . . It is easy to detect the following things...
...first of all, a question of choice of subject matter. A purely abstract design I thought would not suffice her survive to be lived with for a length of time. It should have a meaning to help to retain the interest of the faculty, which is to dine in this room. So the theme became a sprouting, glaucous verdure, an image of the idea of growing. Green, as a soothing, quieting, and appetizing color. To contain enough variations towards more exciting yellow shades as well as towards cooler bluish tints. But green, as rich and juicy as possible without becoming...
...jury duty at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Show (TIME, Oct. 30), with a disappointed verdict on contemporary U.S. art: "It appears to be suffering from what I take to be a kind of measles which affects the young. So many of the young seem to have gone all abstract ... it is probably due to the passion for modern culture...