Word: geometricism
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He regards wars and famine (among humans) with a friendly eye. Of China he says: "There is little hope that the world will escape the horror of extensive famines in China within the next few years. But from the world point of view, these may be not only desirable but...
The results were varied and poetic as they were abstract: he painted the sea to look like a flight of cold, curling steps, and made forests echo the architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and...
He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do what is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs in order that...
Through Weber's telescope the rocks of Alcatraz and the geometric concrete buildings showed clearly. You could even make out men in uniform standing on the walls, other men running along the cliffs. Puffs of smoke occasionally blossomed against a wall; then a "Boom" drifted across the Bay. Thousands...
But painting, like any game, still required a rigidly defined field (or canvas), a number of players (forms and colors), and, finally, rules of play. Instead of imitating nature, referees developed new rules: 1) distorting and arbitrarily recoloring nature for emotional impact (expressionism); 2) chopping nature into small cubes in...