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A central underlying meaning of this particular picture is that it is an image of the process of creation.
The artist does not use
traditional proportions
to restrict the
colours, which thus
subsist in a world of their own making.
An important part of this image is the arena of contrasting spring and autumn
contrasting strongly with
the strangely
stretched
downward
reaching
elements of the prototype.
The
major feature of stereometric construction
is that it enables the viewer
to understand form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than odour.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
contrast of the senses of sight and sound...
A perpetually
changing
evanescence,
the essential identity
of which
never changes,
is always in a different form
by the mere presence
of the environment.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than odour.
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