Pickup lines have been used in dating for years, often eliciting different responses. From cheesy one-liners to clever play, these icebreakers can sometimes succeed — or lead to an awkward moment. But what makes a pickup line effective? It’s the million-dollar question everyone wants answers to.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Wassily Kandinsky, Black Lines
With its undulating colored ovals traversed by animated brushstrokes, Wassily Kandinsky’s Black Lines (1913), is among the first of his truly nonobjective paintings. The network of thin, agitated lines indicates a graphic, two-dimensional sensibility, while the floating, vibrantly hued forms suggest various spatial depths. By 1913 Kandinsky’s aesthetic theories and aspirations were well developed.
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