Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all … - David Hockney

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David Hockney

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

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