Word: spatialism
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...earliest antecedents of this breakdown of the spatial illusion in painting are the pointillist pictures of the late nineteenth century -- particularly Seurat and Signac. They tried to break down the illusion of space by treating the frame with the same minute dots of color which cover the background of the pointillist canvas. As a result, the frame fuses with the canvas, giving the impression of no frame...
Since the dyslexic child has faulty visual and auditory perception, Mrs. McGlannan tries to reinforce these senses by stressing touch techniques. Children make human and animal figures out of clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says...
...that it leads to reading difficulties in children who otherwise show normal intelligence in mental tests. Dyslexics display a whole syndrome of symptoms (some of which are no cause for concern in preschool-age children, but may indicate dyslexia if they persist beyond this age). Usually they confuse spatial relationships. Horizontally, this leads, for example, to spelling first as frist, very as vrey. Vertically, it may cause mixups between u and n, b and p, R and B. Their sense of time may be confused, so that even if they hear well, they tend to transpose sounds, get sentences mixed...
...surprised public and critics alike is how familiar the exhibition looks, not because Gabo's work is familiar-it has rarely received such a substantial showing-but because of the pervasive influence his ideas have had on young moderns, particularly kinetic and op artists. Gabo's fragile spatial constructions, in their crisp, cool elegance, impersonal statement, exacting craftsmanship and knowing use of synthetic materials, evince all the artistic values so esteemed today-but they go back 50 years...
...against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up with it. Although each is different, they search for individual freedom to make spatial poetry, however flamboyant, that endures. Their concrete lessons may make boxy boredom obsolete...