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" When a reaction is primary , ' the idea' is no longer enough to motivate creation . Secondary response is perceived a...

‘Cosa Mentale’ , a case of mind. The picture is absolute. It no longer represents, it simply is. On his deathbed Malevich had been ex...

  James Whistler said that he ‘mixed his paint with his brain’ . James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) , Nocturne in B...

Gertrude Stein, the cubist writer as she called herself, describes the situation of painting at the time as follows: “After Cézanne, everyon...

“There was a cult of what has been called ‘negative beauty’ in the early twentieth century.” – Carol Mann about Modigliani, Thames and Huds...