Sigfried Giedion Quotes

• Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Artist, Reality, Representation

  Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

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• 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 effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Art, Reality, Views

  Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

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• Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".

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• The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Coffee, Spoons, Sun

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• Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Art, Abstraction

  Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

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• Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Machines, Submit, Hog

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