Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
