Word: untruth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...untruth of this verdict can readily be seen in New York's Guggenheim Museum, where the first American retrospective of Morandi's work-65 paintings, with 58 drawings, watercolors and etchings-is on view until mid-January, after which it will travel to the Des Moines Art Center, which is responsible for having organized the exhibition...
...simplest definition, exaggeration is a form of lying. Is it therefore bad, an instrument of untruth? It depends. Sometimes the artful exaggeration is a way of evoking, of discovering, an essential truth lying below the prosaic surface of things. The very idea of exaggeration presupposes some discoverable, objective reality; the task of the human eye and scientific intelligence, in this classic view, would be to describe that reality as dispassionately and accurately as possible. The world has its being outside the fanciful brain of the exaggerator, a romantic whose business is to distort reality. Still, in the late 20th century...