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abstract art
abstract art see abstract expressionism ; modern art .
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The future of abstract art. (Letters).
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; To the Editors: In Does abstract art have a future? (December 2002...I maintain, however, that abstract and representational art are more than symbiotically...pleasure. This singles out abstract art for rejection not because it...
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Abstract expressionism and the Cold War: did New York really steal the idea of modern art? Were the artists tools of U.S. policy? 25 years on, Serge Guilbaut's j'accuse can still prompt a fiery response.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the Idea of Modern Art is that the Abstract Expressionists were...the Museum of Modern Art--the first major show of Abstract Expressionist paintings...1940s and '50s. (3) The Abstract Expressionists realized that their art was new and difficult...
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Does abstract art have a future?
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...observations that the question of whether abstract art has a future is anything but new...abstraction itself, for the birth of abstract art some ninety years or so ago immediately...artistic viability. No sooner did abstract art--particularly abstract painting...
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Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(death of abstract painters Larry Zox and Rudolf de Crignis)(death of manhattan art dealer Allan Stone)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/2007; 700+ words
; Robert Rosenblum, art historian and curator...33. Larry Zox, 69, abstract painter, died of...Swissborn New York abstract painter, died of...Farbe School for Art and Media Design...Stone, 74, Manhattan art dealer, died in his...knowledgeable about the Abstract Expressionists and...
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Cool Cats: feline fun with abstract art.
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 4/1/2002; ; 551 words
; A realist at heart, abstract art is always a tedious unit for...come up with a fun way to teach abstract art, Cool Cats was conceived. The...learn about Pablo Picasso and his abstract style of art work. * learn about modern artists...
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Rare gestures: various misconceptions about Abstract-Expressionist prints, a long-neglected field, are challenged in a traveling show titled "The Stamp of Impulse." (Prints).(Naples Museum of Art)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...wisdom has it that Abstract Expressionism was...Frankenthaler, Francis--Abstract-Expressionist artists...By contrast, Pop art (so the wisdom goes...Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE...Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints...touch so valued by Abstract-Expressionist ...
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"The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism." (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the consensus on Abstract Expressionism remains...homegrown American art movement and the...effect on subsequent art, (Abstract Expressionism, after...Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, in...Museum of Modern Art's new building...
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Around the galleries: London assumes a distinctly twentieth-century flavour this April with post-War abstraction, arts and crafts furniture and art-deco silverware on show.(Nine Abstract Artists )(book by Lawrence Alloway)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 4/1/2005; ; 552 words
; The seminal book Nine Abstract Artists by Lawrence Alloway...development of post-War avant-garde art in Britain that helped to focus...reappraised in the exhibition 'Nine Abstract Artists--Revisited' at Osborne...the arts and crafts and the art deco movements. The loan exhibition...
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Guardians of the Avant-Garde: the exhibition "Action/Abstraction" examines Abstract Expressionism and its aftermath in light of a longstanding critical rivalry.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)(Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...show, but Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 does...examines the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and...through the lens of an art-critical rivalry...complicated, and Action/Abstraction, along with its thorough...balanced account of the art, the ...
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My Kid Could Paint That: is there anything there? Marla painting, Pollock painting, and abstract art in the 21st century.(2007 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)
Magazine article from: CineAction; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...with a) cute little girls and b) abstract art as a fraud perpetrated by the art...going conversation surrounding abstract art's reception that is of major interest...virulent and unashamed attack on abstract art by some of the major players in...
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abstract art
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
abstract art Art that does not depict recognizable...conception of art as the imitation of nature. Abstract art in this sense was born and achieved its...tendencies are recognizable. In Cubism and Abstract Art (1936), Alfred H. Barr , ‘at the...
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Abstract Expressionism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...first reported that a style of abstract art, largely devoid of representational...well as the hard‐edged abstract art of interwar modernists like Stuart...metal sculptures of the 1950s. Abstract Expressionist art embodies profound disaffection...
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abstract expressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...first from the art of Picasso , Miró...turbulent yet elegant abstract paintings, which...to the American art scene. Bibliography: See M. Seuphor, Abstract Painting: Fifty...Idea of Modern Art (1983); W. C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting...
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American Abstract Artists
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...An association of American abstract painters and sculptors formed...disseminated the principles of abstract art by lectures, publications...picketed the Museum of Modern Art , demanding that it should show American art, but by the mid-1940s abstract art had achieved ...
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abstract
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...discussing the problem in a very abstract manner. ∎ ...xA0; of or relating to art that uses shapes, forms...separately from something else: abstracting religion from its historical...an article or book): he abstracts material for an online database...or formal speech. 2. an ...
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