{Romanesque Art [continued (15)}[6th March 1991]

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‘In contrast to Berzé,* the wall-paintings in the Catalan church of S Clemente at Tahull** (removed to the museum of Catalan art at Barcelona) are thoroughly Romanesque in style, without any attempt at Byzantine naturalism. They are linear, stylised in the extreme, and two-dimensional. The features are simplified and geometrical, the colours vivid and arbitrary. The whole is a powerful image, only distantly related to natural forms and proportions.

‘Not all Romanesque paintings are as uncompromising, but many share with Tahull the predilection for the simplification, almost the geometrization, of human forms. This tendency towards abstraction, for changing natural forms almost into geometric*** patterns, was one of the features of Romanesque art as a whole.’

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*[See last previous entry]

**[Sic; presumably, Taüll]

***cf The Greek Geometric Period, c100 years later in its cycle at c 900-700BCE (2048J~+/–

(& see [[Redbook8:306-314][19910306:0930c]{Romanesque Art}[6th March 1991],] 306]

**** – ibid [– Encylopaedia of Visual Art 3:] 570-571

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