Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde

Support

Again, the extremely precise curvilinear line serves as a support for the other structures in the picture. It also balances it out spatially and endows the piece with physical qualities such as weight, having the line there makes it more feasible that this could be a standing structure. Were the line not there we might perceive the picture as something that cannot exist in the world, because the structure would fall to one side.

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