Comment on England
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| "'''Comment on England''' (1935) is an essay by [[Geoffrey Grigson]] first published in the first issue of [[Axis (magazine)|Axis]][https://monoskop.org/images/d/d3/Axis_1_Jan_1935.pdf]. The essay features an early use of the term ''[[biomorphism]]''. | "'''Comment on England''' (1935) is an essay by [[Geoffrey Grigson]] first published in the first issue of [[Axis (magazine)|Axis]][https://monoskop.org/images/d/d3/Axis_1_Jan_1935.pdf]. The essay features an early use of the term ''[[biomorphism]]''. | ||
| - | :"Certain artists have realised this in their practice ; abroad Picasso, Brancusi, Klee, Miro, Hélion ; in England Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore. Abstractions are of two kinds, geometric, the abstractions which lead to the inevitable death ; and [[biomorphic]]." | + | :"Abstractions are of two kinds, [[geometric]], the abstractions which lead to the inevitable death ; and [[biomorphic]]. The biomorphic abstractions are the beginning of the next central phase in the progress of art. They exist between Mondrian and Dali, between idea and emotion, between matter and mind, matter and life." |
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| - | In his " [[Elements of Folk Psychology]] " Wilhel m Wund t describes | + | |
| - | the way in which the Bakairi of Central Brazil mak e simple geometrical designs on wood, | + | |
| - | affective through symmetr y and rhythm , and how then they read into these designs " through | + | |
| - | imaginative association, the memor y images of objects "—snakes, swarms of bees, etc. | + | |
| - | In these geometrical patterns so interpreted he finds the beginning of formativ e art. | + | |
| - | Abstract art at this tim e needs (but actually and not only in fancy) to be bodied out in such | + | |
| - | a way ; to be penetrated and possessed by a mor e varied affective and intellective content. | + | |
| - | Only so can it answer to the ideological and emotional complexity of the needs of human | + | |
| - | beings with their enlarged knowledge of the widened country of self. | + | |
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"Comment on England (1935) is an essay by Geoffrey Grigson first published in the first issue of Axis[1]. The essay features an early use of the term biomorphism.
- "Abstractions are of two kinds, geometric, the abstractions which lead to the inevitable death ; and biomorphic. The biomorphic abstractions are the beginning of the next central phase in the progress of art. They exist between Mondrian and Dali, between idea and emotion, between matter and mind, matter and life."
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