Word: prampolini
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...constructions are hybrids of painting and sculpture) or more ostensibly rigorous in its aims, like that of Gary Stephan, 42. His paintings are like massive and vivid reflections on late cubism, especially the utopian "cubifying" abstraction of the 1920s, as practiced by such artists as Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and Prampolini. They have the visionary character of ideal forms -- ovals, cones, circles, cubes -- moving in deep space, its depth contradicted by puzzling abutment and reflections that block the view, break the recession and direct the eye back to the richly painted surface. Another highly gifted artist in the area where abstraction...
...last week on a small foundry owner, Giacomo Fabbri, in Ferrara. While they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly sent small boys scurrying through Ferrara to round up the party's toughs...
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