"Elementarism has been born partly in reaction to an over-dogmatic and often narrow-minded application of NeoPlasticism manner of expression, which is restricted to two dimensions , Elementarism acknowledges a form of plastic expression in four dimensions, the realm of space-time. In opposition to the orthogonal style of plastic expression, which is 'homogeneous' with natural construction, Elementarism postulates a 'heterogeneous' contrasting, unstable manner of plastic expression based upon planes oblique in relation to the static, perpendicular axis of gravitation"
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