Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York
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Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.