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Ambiguity
in which this is possible. Semantic ambiguity is one such way, but there are others: homonymy (mentioned in §1),vagueness, relativity, indexicality, nonliterality, indirection and inexplicitness. All these other phenomena illustratesomething distinct from multiplicity of linguistic meaning. An expression is vague if it admits of borderline cases (seeVagueness ). Terms like ‘bald', ‘heavy' and ‘old' are obvious examples, and their vagueness is explained by the fact that they apply to items on fuz...
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Cubism
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INTRODUCTION
Cubism, movement in modern art, especially in painting, invented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907 and 1908.
Mont Sainte-Victoire by CézanneFrench artist Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home in Provence in southern France, onmany occasions. Over time, the images he produced became flatter, less realistic, and more abstract. In this late version,painted from 1902 to 1904, patches of color barely indicate the mountain, sky, and foreground, while creating a rhythmicpattern across the painting’s surface. The mountain and sky, both intensely blue, appear almost to merge.Philad...
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Pablo Picasso.
Color juxtapositions—between blue and orange, for instance—are intentionally strident and unharmonious. The representation of space is fragmented and discontinuous. While the left side of the canvas is largely Iberian-influenced, the right side is inspired by African masks, especially in its striped patterns and oval forms. Suchborrowings, which led to great simplification, distortion, and visual incongruities, were considered extremely daring in 1907. The head of the figure at the bottom right,...