Word: linearized
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...purple, built up from layers of sprayed acrylic. Where the surface is thin, the painting opens out around the separate flecks of paint; where the surface is thick, it fuses into a shiny surface priced by bubbles. Toward the edges, the color field lightens and meets a series of linear strokes of color that bound and direct it. On the right the general tone of the painting grows green; there the bordering strokes are green on white. On the left, a plunging red streak ignites the entire canvas like a flare thrown across the night. (I describe the painting...
ROBERT DORFMAN, Wells Professor of Political Economy. Dorfman has written on linear programming and the economic status of the aged...
...since nobody can easily abandon his own accustomed description it must be forcibly broken up. The historical precedents, even in the West, are abundant. Ever since the ecstatic mystery religions of Greece, our culture has been continually challenged by the wish to escape its own dominant properties: the linear, the categorical, the fixed...
...people who like to reassure themselves that there is only one world and that the "validity" of a culture's interpretations can and should be measured only against this norm. Any myth, they would say, can conveniently be seen as an embryonic form of what the West accepts as linear history; a Hopi rain dance is merely
Koetsu and Sotatsu reacted against the hard, linear, brushpoint drawing derived from the Chinese that dominated Japanese art in the early 17th century; instead they used the mokkotsu or "boneless" technique, dropping pigment into wet pigment, staining and mottling the shapes of flowers, twigs and thunder-god with infinitely subtle gradations of color, preparing the paper with washes of gold or silver dust or with a snowy, glistening mixture of eggshell white and flakes of mica. These hallmarks-which must in their time have seemed very "Japanese," in elaborate contrast to the austerities of Chinese brush technique-helped form...