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        "description": "Unlike Maillol, Lehmbruck, or Matisse, who relied on copying nature in drawing the figure and emphasized the rounded, three-dimensional quality of form even in their graphics, Armitage wanted \"to express an idea as simply as possible.\" <em>Reclining Figure </em>summarizes the basic shape and appendages of the human body and stresses flatness since it is a study for a bronze relief. Armitage also accentuates the horizontal and the vertical because \"We walk vertically and rest horizontally. . . . We live in a world of verticals and horizontals.\"",
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