Word: geometricism
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Georges Braque is now a big, rugged man with white hair and deep-set eyes. He was born in 1882 at Argenteuil near Paris, received a good technical training at several private art academies. About 1907 Braque and Picasso began to do geometric abstractions from nature and 'Picasso enjoyed...
This legal rivalry has smoldered for months in Washington. To oppose the McCarran-Lea Bill, the Post Office has lately softened its harsh attitude toward the lines, gone out of its way to give them what they asked. Example was permission to United Air Lines last month to fly into...
Last month Northwest Airlines got permission from the Post Office to fly 60 mi. south of its run between Seattle and Spokane so it could serve Yakima, Wash., which had no airline at all. The Denver Chamber of Commerce immediately petitioned the Post Office to allow United to do the...
Next to the porringer is a sugar caster of 1684, quite simple except for some flat, geometric ornament that identifies it with the time and taste of James II.
Albers believes that certain fundamental designs, or combinations of geometric figures, are pleasing to the eye just as a musical chord is to the ear, and that a discord in design is as definite as one in music.