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Still Life with Apples

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Description: Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art
The lesson that we learn from Léger had its origins in Cézanne. As was the case with so many artists at the beginning of this century, however, it was a lesson Léger innocently misinterpreted. …
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PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.230-231
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00092.027
Chapter subject tags:Graphic DesignArt, Modern
Description: From Lascaux to Brooklyn
What do the cave paintings of Lascaux have in common with ... … The Tower of Pisa? A Romanesque campanile on the Arno, built in the twelfth century of white marble, 293 steps to the top. Its oblique orientation, for which it is famous, is 14 feet off the perpendicular. Ironically, it is this very aberration that produces so dynamic a composition in relation to its surrounding buildings. But is it the formal composition, the relations between diagonal and vertical elements, or the perception of …
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PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.2-26
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00052.003

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