Perhaps because I spent the first eight years of my life surrounded by factories and warehouses and train yards, I love paintings of industrial scenes. There is a very nice just about where I am sitting. I am also very fond of Sheeler, who was a Philadelphian and worked for many ears just outside of Doylestown. Patrick says that Sheeler "seems to have absorbed the lessons of abstraction in order to do something else." I think that's true. I also think it's necessary. Form is abstract and must be mastered in order that the form of life can be properly depicted. It is not, however, an end in itself.
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