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[[File:Hot_Still-Scape_for_Six_Colors_-_7th_Avenue_Style.jpg|thumb|''Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style'' (1940).]]'''Stuart Davis''' is an early American [[modernist painter]] and [[superhero]].
[[File:Hot_Still-Scape_for_Six_Colors_-_7th_Avenue_Style.jpg|thumb|''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 supervillain take-downs of the 1940s and 1950s -- bold, brash, and colorful -- as well as his Trash Can [[Crime team (nonfiction)|crime teams]] in the early years of the 20th century.
He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop supervillain take-downs of the 1940s and 1950s -- bold, brash, and colorful -- as well as his Trash Can [[Crime team (nonfiction)|crime teams]] in the early years of the 20th century.
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On practical hazards and Max Beckmann:
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>
  <blockquote>In a [[Painting (nonfiction)|painting]], space doesn't involve practical hazards. Except in [[Max Beckmann]] paintings.  You can break your damned neck in a [[Max Beckmann]] painting.</blockquote>


== In the News ==
== In the News ==
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* [[Max Beckmann]]
* [[Max Beckmann]]
* [[Modernist painter]]


== Nonfiction cross reference ==
== Nonfiction cross reference ==

Revision as of 14:32, 20 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 supervillain take-downs of the 1940s and 1950s -- bold, brash, and colorful -- as well as his Trash Can crime teams in the early years of the 20th century.

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.

In the News

Fiction cross reference

Nonfiction cross reference