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I strive to make my art bear the same relation to painting that polyphony bears to music. Illustrative music is a thing of the past: it has become abstract and purely aesthetic, dependent for its effect upon rhythm and form.

— Stanton Macdonald-Wright Bryant American Pictures And Their Painters (1917)

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