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...artificial paradise garden, whose chief example (for Matisse) was the Alhambra in Granada-nature tamed, formalized and patterned to the highest degree of artifice and comfort. A work like the Large Decoration with Masks, 1953, with its repeated gridwork of leaves and cloves, alludes directly to Arabic tilework. But the other prototype was the vision of the natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti in 1930, finding it "both superb and boring . . . There the weather is beautiful at sunrise and it does not change until night. Such immutable happiness is tiring." He dived...
Escher's work was involved with many of the notions current in the more abstract sciences. The obsessive patternmaking, which appeared after he saw the Moorish tilework in the Alhambra during a visit to Spain in 1932, became a visual demonstration of field theory -for there is no "foreground" or "background" in Escher's mosaics. The outline of one figure instantly becomes the boundary of another...
Last week she found one, in a 15-story apartment building facing Washington Square: seven rooms, three baths, a fireplace, built-in bookcases. In the rear of the building is a little Spanish courtyard with scenes from the career of Don Quixote traced in its tilework. The address: 29 Washington Square West...
...That the elaborate tilework found on old Mexican buildings had its origin in the Moorish civilization of the Middle Ages...
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