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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==


"In a [[painting]], [[space]] doesn't involve [[practical hazards]]. Except in [[Max Beckmann]] paintings.  You can break your damned neck in a [[Max Beckmann]] painting."
=== On practical hazards and Max Beckmann ===
 
<blockquote>In a [[painting]], [[space]] doesn't involve [[practical hazards]]. Except in [[Max Beckmann]] paintings.  You can break your damned neck in a [[Max Beckmann]] painting.</blockquote>


== Fiction cross reference ==
== Fiction cross reference ==

Revision as of 03:57, 1 June 2016

Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style (1940).

Stuart Davis is an early American modernist painter and superhero.

He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop villain take-downs of the 1940s and 1950s -- bold, brash, and colorful -- as well as his Cash Can pictures in the early years of the 20th century.

Quotes

On practical hazards and Max Beckmann

In a painting, space doesn't involve practical hazards. Except in Max Beckmann paintings. You can break your damned neck in a Max Beckmann painting.

Fiction cross reference

Nonfiction cross reference