Word: fruitbowl
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...pictures stand witness. This law student from Le Cateau in the north of France saw the picture plane flat and saw it whole. He began treating it as a design rather than an imaginary view. A pattern in the wallpaper might come forward to take equal authority with a fruitbowl on a table. He saw women as outlines-a grace, a structure of volume, a presence in a landscape-and abandoned nuances of flesh tones in favor of vigor of composition. Perhaps as much as Picasso, he altered the course of modern perception...
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