Word: geometricism
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Realism is represented by Andrew Wyeth's A Day at the Fair, a drybrush watercolor of a Negro girl alone at home. Its social side is found in Jack Levine's police dogs in Birmingham '63. Geometric expressionism shows in the "hard-edge" painting of Richard Anuskiewicz...
Ghostly Shapes. In his most recent work, Anuszkiewicz often uses three or four colors and a simpler geometric motif. Each painting has its internal rhythm, which is measured like bars of music. One yellow and grey painting has a pattern of grids, some of which are quartered, some cut to...
Manhattan's revamped Jewish Museum this week opens an instructive show called "Toward a New Abstraction," with 47 works by nine of these artists. At first glance, the hard-edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare...
Taunting, Tempting. The works span a narrow spectrum from the formal purity of Ellsworth Kelly and Al Held to the geometric surrealism of George Ortman (see color). Kelly's naked statements of form are bland on the surface; yet he clashes colors like cymbals to drive the viewer'...
The Real Philistines. The final selection did not cover all of modern art. Most of the German expressionists were omitted, because the organizers did not think them particularly significant. The Russian geometric abstractionists were overlooked; there was only one Kandinsky; the Italian futurists were turned down because of some sort...