Word: spatialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spatialist Dova frets at the old idea that a painting is something to be enclosed by a frame: "I want to conclude my ideas outside the frame, to give the sensation that outside is everything...
Lucio Fontana, 53, who founded the spatialist school in Buenos Aires six years ago, also submitted a display. It was a spinning, nebular mass perforated with hundreds of tiny holes and lighted from the back. "We conceive of art," says Head Spatialist Fontana, "as the sum of physical elements-color, sound, movement, time, space-forming a physical, psychic unity . . . an art which must be communicated through new techniques and mediums." He foresees a day when vibrating images and even smoke will be televised as art. "For me," he says, "painting within a frame is dead, and sculpture as we know...
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