Word: literalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Painter Paul Klee, as unfettered as a yodeler on the Matterhorn, gave his fellow artists some advice. If a literalist should look at one of their portraits, he told them, and say, "But that isn't a bit like uncle," the disciplined artist should reply, "To hell with uncle! I must get on with my building...