Word: spatialism
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Nevertheless, Louis derw on contremporary painting for his vocabulary, if not his inspiration. His veil-like clouds of color come from Rothko, and the active Oscillation of spatial structure has precedence in Rothko and in "optical" art as early as Albers...
Even the problem of composition may be considered a matter of selection. Yet once the choice was made--perhaps destroying three prints of alternative spatial arrangement and then framing the fourth--a particular composition may become so perfect that it's hard to imagine that a real choice has ever been made. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky and his black piano on a white foreground is one of these unquestionable arrangements...
...explosion of an errant rocket in the view of millions on TV; in the instant incineration of a capsule out of control during the treacherous reentry into the earth's heavy atmosphere; in the coffin of a malfunctioning craft unable to descend that orbits, orbits, orbits in the spatial void while power ebbs and life leaks away in slow suffocation...
...professor at Instant College would have done well to quote the Navy League's pamphlet describing Harvard's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts this way: "It exemplifies conceptualistic innuendo pyramided upon spatial forbearance and is altogether tokenish of tactile cosmological luminous volumentality...
...launched - and precious few afterward - they cannot keep their secrets for very long. Soon after a Soviet space craft has gone into orbit, U.S. Air Force scientists not only record its speed and plot its orbit but determine its size and shape and often deduce its mission. Their spatial detective work is made possible by radar signature analysis (RSA), a little-known technique that may some day be used to save the U.S. from a sneak attack...