Word: trusswork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings of Delaunay, like A Window, 1912-13, which had been seen in Berlin in 1913. Its light-filled space, saturated with color-not the sober browns and grays of cubism, but the full radiance of the spectrum from high yellow through to ultramarine, with a vestigial slice of trusswork from the Eiffel Tower rising in the top third of the painting to remind one that this was a view of Paris-made a deep impression on the young German, to whom color had an absolute value. But instead of following Delaunay into abstraction, he grafted his color system onto...
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