Word: mondrian
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...appropriating the successive styles of Picasso (plus Kandinsky's and Miro's) until he had them fully digested, apprenticed himself with typical fierceness to The Studio, to its subtracted forms, flat surfaces and shallow space. After the Tinkertoy intricacies of Cubism, this was Picasso glancing in the direction of Mondrian, arriving at something close to the railway armatures of hard-edge abstraction. In 1936, after three years of study and effort, Gorky replied with Organization, his own breakthrough into a new understanding of how soft form could coexist with hard...
...margins) is attaching sticky notes. Obviously this applies to all books, but even college texts, which get worked over heavily, have a shelf-life, so there's only so much annotation you do. This is not true of Bibles, which in many evangelical circles end up looking like Mondrian done in pink and green pastels...
...outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors (simple) and then to manipulate them...
...LilyScape (whimsical frog motifs, good for a kid's room) and MetroScape (which lets you fix things like miniature saxophones and martini glasses to a Mondrian-style backing of plain and colored rectangles). The only drawback is the price: at about $115 per roll, and $88 for a set of magnets, you may opt not to use this throughout the house. But it's ideal for single walls or smaller rooms, and it will keep the interior designer in you endlessly entertained...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder famous "spot paintings"), LilyScape (whimsical frog motifs, good for a kid's room) and MetroScape (which lets you fix things like miniature saxophones andmartini glasses to a Mondrian-style backing of plain and colored rectangles). The only drawback is the price: at about $115 per roll, and $88 for a set of magnets, you may opt not to use this throughout the house. But it's ideal for single walls or smaller rooms, and it will keep the interior...