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Reinterpretation of
Form and Space
Then, during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, there came along two artists who would signal a return to an order based on perception and reinterpretation of form and space relations. They were Cézanne and Seurat. Seurat made a careful study of the Golden Section and of the composition of Piero della Francesca. The new vision would emerge in painting, as it had done in the fifteenth century. Degas and van Gogh made important structural-expressive contributions in their use of multiple points of view, or multiple cones of vision. Some or all of this was given rational definition and direction in Cubism (1907-1912). From Cubism it radiated immediately into abstract styles in painting and sculpture, and into architecture. Cubism reinstated the straight line, the line of rationality, and, with it, a modern geometry of form, space, and movement.

[Harlan, Calvin. Vision & Invention, An Introduction to Art Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986.]











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