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s scientificdocuments. Yet in their purely formal organizationof lines, shapes, values and colors his picturesafford real aesthetic satisfaction, along with adegree of active excitement not always presentin what we are asked to accept as the aestheticexperience. Sunlight is the ever-present… … which it pours. Even where the greater part of apicture is in shadow, it is not so much a passiveabsence of sunlight as a vigorous and positiveshadow, the reverse of an active and unremittingsun. On the technical side his mastery, always skirt-ing the futility of pure virtuosity, adds the thrill…
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