Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnny Walker Mark II, Formula IV, is not a new liquor. It's a car -- one of many on display at the New England international Automobile Show at the War Memorial Auditorium. About ten feet long and only two feet high and wide, bright red, tapering to a broad, flat snout, Johnny resembles a tongue kissing. As such, he is one of least sensual pieces in the show...
Sharkey had a sizeable lead on Messenger after four miles. But the Villanovan turned on the speed going up steep Cemetery Hill and pulled adead. Messenger increased his lead in the closing flat and won going away...
...works move freely in a full three dimensional space. They rely upon visual illusions to force the viewer to see the works as if they occupy a single plane. In Zig VII, the over-all context of the piece, created by the individual parts, is planar and hence the flat discs tend to suggest two dimensional representation of perpective rather than a tangible volumetric depth...
...forms in shadow do not appear to go back into space behind the illuminated surfaces, instead they seem to be darker forms in the same plane which suggest shadow. In Cubi XXVIII, Smith, using this planar illusion, forces the viewer to see even the cylindrical forms as flat...
...lightness of the forms add a greater sensation of motion. But these pieces also attempt to maintain the planar illusion of Smith's previous sculpture. Wagon I teases the viewer with a very full three dimensional, melonlike form in the center of the composition which is made to appear flat by a combination of the planar surfaces of the wheels, the linear effect of the bar on which the forms rests, and the strong effect of planar perspective in the rectangle...