Their principles were abstract but broad-minded: tolerance, free trade, and a belief in something called the American Way.
Marden emerged in New York as one of a number of independent-minded abstract painters — among them Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin, and Mangold — who accepted the reductive, skeptical imperatives of that minimalist era up to a point.
Frankenthaler often inserts her signature into a composition, which can seem elegant to a fault — a sometime weakness that she shared with the high-minded Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell, whom she married in 1958.
Since his art debut in Berlin, the Canadian (by-way-of-Deutschland) has been dazzling the art world with his digitally-integrated acrylic paintings, breathing a new media edge into his classically-minded abstract artwork.
"The Anarchist" is one of Mr. Mamet's more abstract works, featuring a high-minded debate between two characters whose backgrounds are revealed slowly — a Weather Underground-style prisoner (Ms. LuPone) and a seeming adversary (Ms. Winger) who has the power to release her.
Thus, the ethical issues described are not isolated to some aspects of clinical practice and merely concerned with high-minded ideals or abstract principles.
Cézanne's stroke-by-stroke reassembly of the visible world didn't just inspire Cubism and lead to abstract art; it stood for a tough-minded retooling of conventions in any creative field.
Hilary Putnam proposes loyalty to what is best in the multiple traditions in which each of us participates, apparently a middle way between a narrow-minded patriotism and an overly abstract cosmopolitanism (ibid, 114).
She shared the neighborhood with Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, and several other fomenters of tough-minded responses to the triumphs of Abstract Expressionism.
This high-minded aim became a touchstone of abstract art in the early years of Modernism, and continues to inspire artists who have little or no direct connection with Kandinsky's theories.
It was high-minded stuff -- a bit too abstract for some, perhaps.
