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representation was developed in which the attempt was
made to give unity and perspective to the picture and to
represent the atmosphere. . . .
When in the field of science a great deal of progress
has been made and most of the pertinent variables are
known, a new problem may most readily be handled by
trying to fit it into the existing framework. When,
however, the framework is uncertain and the number of
variables is large the mosaic approach is much the easier.
The mosaic approach is not only “much the easier” in the study
of the simultaneous which is the auditory field; it is the only
relevant approach. For the “two-dimensional” mosaic or
painting is the mode in which there is muting of the visual as
such, in order that there may be maximal interplay among all of
the senses. Such was the painterly strategy “since Cézanne,” to