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Written by Naomi Aviv
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Toren's hostile intervention in the smug bourgeois painting as-it-were shook up its essence and created a
strange friction between its flat painterly language and the new three-dimensional language, between its descriptive pictorial language and the graphic verbal language, between matter and anti-matter, and all this without blurring, distorting or destroying the image. The image has not been chewed up, and it certainly has not vanished. The appearance of the word out of the void, on the horizon of the landscape painting, even heightens what is there. This idea, by the way, could also work in the same way on a painting by Renoir or Rubens without destroying them, except that then the element of scandal would be greater than the visual meaning. In this sense, Toren is entitled to feel a satisfaction with the result of his act of subversive heightening of what is considered "low" art.
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