Word: rectangularity
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...linen exactly 68 in. by 178 in., she folds, sizes and gessoes it until it becomes a geometrical plaque. "I had wanted," she writes, "to approach painting in a way that takes as given certain conventions while questioning others." The convention she rejected was that paintings should be rectangular. The one she used was a system of proportion, invented by the Greeks and widely used in Renaissance Italy, known as "the golden section"-a way of dividing a line so that the smaller part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. At first, Rockburne...
...some stray commas and capital letters which are left white. This laborious doodling produces now and again some pretty moire effects, like watered silk, but that is all, and the all is virtually nothing. It is, however, more than Robert Hunter's piece, which consists of pale gray rectangular grids, the ghosts of Carl André's floor tiles, stenciled on the museum wall, adding the consolation of near invisibility to the muteness of complete banality...
...John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. By now it is only fair to hail Harris as an acoustics virtuoso. Harris' secret, if it can be called that, is to stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl, and a minimum of carpeting and plush upholstery on chairs. Harris has made his chairs of oak and carefully tested foam cushions. He has even installed individual lockers in access corridors to encourage dowagers to leave their fur coats outside...
John Conklin has designed a versatile buff-colored unit set. There is a balconied building to the right, with a console-supported bust ornamenting one wall. To the rear stands a gateway and wall. In the center is a rectangular cistern, which, with the dropping from the grid of a canopy or crucifix, can be covered in a trice to become Juliet's bed or Friar Laurence's altar. A few chairs and round tables turn the building into a sidewalk cafe, with an organ-grinder on hand to increase authenticity...
Although Pei has not drawn up a design for the building, he and Harvard officials have agreed upon an outline which calls for the construction of a six-story brick building in the northeast corner of the site. The structure will have a narrow rectangular shape, measuring 380 by 50 feet and will contain 160,000 sq. feet of floor space...