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David Smith's persistent interest in the illusion of two dimensionality in sculpture unifies his total production. Smith's sculpture never encourages the viewer to move around it or see it as an object with volume. His sculpture is designed, like painting and drawing, to be viewed from only one...
This Cubist idea inspired Smith, in works like Structure of Arches (1939), to break down the elements of his subject into two dimensional forms and reassemble them into a visually two dimensional whole which nonetheless occupies three dimensional space. In Structure of Arches, Smith uses a very different stylistic approach...
-Tintoretto, Rubens, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto; his problem from the beginning was that he kept leaving off the halos. His taste for reality over illusion distressed his teacher, Academician Thomas Couture, whose 1847 uncostumed orgy, Romans of the Decadence, was the hit of the day. Manet's mother...
Ruth K. Porritt, Librarian, says there are always seats in the library. The crowding is more of an illusion than a reality -- Hilles looks crowded because there is never an empty study area, but instead almost always at least one person in an area designed for two or three.
Implausible? Deane theorizes that Blake was actually a triple agent. After the Korean experience, he surmises, British intelligence asked Blake to "sell out" to the Russians, then plant false information (leavened with bits of sound but less valuable data) in hopes of misleading Moscow or gaining enemy information himself. According...