Word: amphora
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...repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper has its own density as palpable substance-which accounts for the peculiarly sculptural look of some of Matisse's blue cut-outs of nudes, such as the Woman with Amphora and Pomegranates...
Curves and Angles. Materials and objects proved only variously susceptible to the sensibility of the age. Cut glass, perfume flasks or a bubbly blue glass Steuben amphora look as pristine and crisp today as they did when Gertrude Lawrence was taking her first bows. Ceramie platters with insipid doe-eyed female heads and statuettes of languid girls on the other hand, are likely to be valued only by aficionados of kitsch. Certain themes and color schemes predominated: outrageous colors prompted by Léon Bakst's Ballet Russe sets; Egyptian motifs and Aztec patterns...
...Moist in the center, amphora is the Earth with latest comic strips so hips for dying, fires the moist puts out the hots so dearth of plenty is merryment for Milesians, prying apart the union of Sky and Earth, these scaps under Anaximander made a meander of elements to a four-square jig of fire-water called "tab 's' to be inserted in slot 't'"--in short, a fence "apeiron" with seeds tied hatching to its string, knitting the cold wet hamburg of the world to clay and fleshing it with glaze, an onion ring sliced for a sky that...
...canvas can enter duty free, but an Arp collage (made of pasted doilies, tapestry and cloth) is dutiable. Arp's abstract marble, Configurations of Serpent Movements, was cleared because its title suggests it was modeled on "imitations of natural objects," whereas Arp's equally abstract Dream Amphora...
...style that their work, though usually unsigned, is identifiable today. The painters are usually called by an object they may have painted well, like the Pig Painter, or after a city where one of their better works may be located, like the Berlin Painter, who did the red-figure amphora (opposite). But by the beginning of the 3rd century B.C., the art that had so deftly wedded form, decoration and utility died out and has never since been revived...