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Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create disarmingly strong feelings.
A temporally
changing
evanescence,
the scale and openness
of which
remains unchanged,
is often unrecognizably altered
by the perception
of the outer surface.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
It is important to understand that the
major feature of Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
Paradoxically,
we see the
leading centralism
representing
the self
undulate towards the centre of the painting,
suggesting
unreliability.
A deep underlying meaning of the work is that it is an image of the process of creation.
``This painting exemplifies
the collage-like arrangements by which
surrealist painters
brought together apparently unrelated objects
to create a striking visual poetry,
intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]
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