Acrobats, aerialists, strongmen, jugglers and dancers join the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra for "Cirque de la Symphonie," a pops concert pairing, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Center Performance Hall in Little Rock.
The Downtown Little Rock Partnership, Central Arkansas Library System and Mexican Consulate of Little Rock will celebrate Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), 5-8 p.m. Tuesday with an alley party in the alley just north of the Central Arkansas Library System's Main Library.
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Bear in mind the term did not come from any of the painters so-designated, but from the art critic Robert Coates who applied it to the New York artists in 1946. The term itself was coined in Germany (where else?) in 1919, and was first used to characterize the work of a specific artist (Wassily Kandinsky), in 1929. Many of the painters on the list have vehemently denied that their work was abstract.
My “American Heritage Dictionary“ lists five principal definitions of abstract, of which only the fifth has anything to do with art: Designating a genre of painting whose intellectual and affective content depends solely on intrinsic form.