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A deep underlying meaning of this image is the world of dark and light
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting sugar and wine to indicate the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang.
A temporally
changing
glammerdummering,
the essential identity
of which
is always constant,
is always in a different form
by the mere presence
of the reviewer.
The
writhing
curves
are
closed
in a glorious send-up of
stereometric construction.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the image into
the world of deprivations, inhibitions and hardship.
The
receding
curves
are
intertwined
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
``The problems dealt with in
abstract art
relate to
the interplay of forces;
the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists
do not indicate (as has been thought)
a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach --
a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves
and are
alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use
an artist can make of them
in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]
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