Here is what Whitehead said in 1911 about the theory of types: «All the contradictions can be avoided, and yet the
use of classes and relations can be preserved as required by mathematics, and
indeed by
common sense, by a theory which denies to a class — or relation — existence or being in any
sense in which the entities composing it — or related by it — exist» (MAT 293).
Indeed her works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some
common ground, such as the spectacular
use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful
use of diagonals that creates a solid
sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by
using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.
Indeed, if one takes literally what the trial judge wrote earlier in his reasons, he
used his
common sense in deciding which to choose.