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407:(fig. 273), 1979, commissioned by the Miami Beach Theater of the Performing Arts, is unique. Made of concrete, steel, and polyurethane enamel, and incorporating a palm tree and a pool filled with water, it is a dazzlingly silly and provocative piece...He enlarged upon the concept of painterly sculpture by stressing painting's basic building block, the brushstroke, in the sculptures that followed...
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