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new virtuosity to the construction of the anatomy - and through the use of of the half cadence suggests the finale without however achieving it. It is
energetic graphics that are in feverish communication with the body being similar to leaving a question in suspension, the subjective answer to which
represented, whence the apparent vibration of the contour generated by is left suppressed in the field of the viewer. Coming back to the red series,
the tensions between the centrifugal and centripetal forces of the body. the diminished lighting -yellow- seems to highlight an ecstasy which has
The flamboyance of the color as well as the energy of the graphic lines not yet reached the threshold of orgasm.
combine to create an atmosphere of turbulence extending beyond the Framework Composing light and Obscurity: lighting is no longer
limits of the canvas as it invades the zone of the viewer. conditioned by the source of the light, but is induced through the
Diminishment of glow (dominant seventh chord): The lighting never reaches composition of light and somber zones. The geometry thus becomes
its dominant -white-, which produces a luminous and chromatic effect on instable and its equilibrium can only be restored through the selective
the sense of sight as the process is being accomplished (on the way to illumination of the zones. It is in this sense that we refer to the framework
fulfillment). A similar effect is produced musically when the leading note composing light and obscurity.
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