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__ "The thing is," Irwin explains, "if you make a compound curve it's very easy to do, but to make a very slight one is very difficult because the swell has to be held at every point.
__ Sylvania, which was the best and the coolest. So I always specified Sylvania floods and even then had to contrive a pale blue transparent filter to correct for the remaining lean toward yellow, so that the bluish tones in the painting would be able to activate.

Dot paintings: A mute white canvas suddenly changes its aspect - there is a moment of tart disclosure, almost like that in Rimbaud's poem "Knowing Girl" - and we in turn blush back. For a few moments, we perceive ourselves perceiving.
 
The discs: Now, however, light and backdrop themselves were about to become active, positive elements in the game of presence.

__ The art is what has happened to the viewer.
__ a more supple perplex

__ Then it became acceptable to portray this particular king; and then, this wealthy merchant; and then, this handmaiden; and then, her red shawl; and, eventually, just the color red.
__ What you're saying in cubism is that this thing of value, is no longer isolated or dissociated from ground by meaning, but that it's interlocked and interwrapped with this ground, that they're interdependent.

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