Word: vacuo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rivera, however, is primarily a painter. Despite the fact that he too is, in a sense, a decorative artist, his work manages to transcend the limits of pure decoration, for his color is not simply color "in vacuo," but is integrally connected with the subject he happens to be concerned with. So that when we find, as we do in this exhibit, one of Rivera's prints, we no longer find Rivera in his complete form; we find a carefully executed piece, one worthy of praise but something which is emasculated when compared to his painting. Now these distinctions which...