Word: hammamet
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...movement. However abstract, it came out of the experience of nature and culture blended. Perhaps the decisive moment in Klee's early career was a 1914 visit that he and his friend August Macke paid to Tunisia, where the warm, sparse earth colors, the heat and the townscape of Hammamet, a desert construction of white boxes and bubbling domes, affected him so powerfully that he was at last able to tell his diary that "color and I are one. I am a painter." The vision of the cellular-grid forms of Tunis, though he never went back there, would always...
...peacetime Huene was a great traveler -to Africa, Indo-China, Bali, Mexico. Until the Germans confiscated it, he had a house in Hammamet, near Tunis. Now he contents himself with a cottage at Glen Cove, Long Island, amiably decorated with batik, leopardskins and rattan furniture. He wants to do a lot more archeological photography, especially of half-obliterated ruins from the vantage point of a balloon...
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