Word: hieroglyphics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunge, Dart, Pierce. Unlike the contemporary cubists, who had moved steadily away from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...