abstraction

Disconnected from the magnitude of this fateful moment, the danger of a fascist president leading a fanatical movement becomes an abstraction.

At the Palm Springs Art Museum, “Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990” takes good account of the general impact the postwar tech boom had on the region’s painters and sculptors.

The subject of advanced technology and its impact on abstraction in Southern California art isn’t new.

The others consider color in motion, space age abstraction, optics and experimental film.

Mortality isn’t an abstraction for either character.