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this twisted glass bowl a waterfall froze

BLINKY
So young Mr. Peter Schwarze to be donned with the moniker of the Mafioso, boxing promoter Blinky Palermo. So young to understand the constant, the supremacy of the solid color, the Feeling of it. So young to experiment with materials to paint on: aluminum, steel, wood, paper, Formica. So young to understand the triangle, off-centered, the way a line divides a canvas forces conflict balanced by a base of BLUE. So young to understand the relations of colored rectangles= Blue Bluer, Green Greener, Yellow with Black Borders. So young to understand dissonance by color. So young to understand the white of the canvas can be used to highlight straight black lines. So young to know that lines crossing other lines if slightly angled will lead the eye to realize they will touch off the canvas. Oh, you young man maker of Gesamtkunstwerk. You cigarette chain smoker. So young to die in the tropics of mysterious causes at 33. So young to paint over others thrown out canvasses. So young to abut colors with stretched, sewn-together bolts of plain- colored cloth painted over, so there is the texture of the nub and weave of the haberdashers stuff. So young to make obelisk type shapes alone on a canvas. So young to work in situ. So young to be
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