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Tel. UNiversity 4-4464 Cartoon - Rough ROMARE BEARDEN 351 West 114th Street New York City 4 heretofore free and [[crossed out]] partly [[/crossed out]] floating shapes are then to be disciplined within horizontal & vertical directions of the surface taking more positive form thru the tensions produced by asymmetry. The opening and the closing of the plane surface is produced by movement and counter movement, an unopposed [[crossed out]] diagonal thrust [[/crossed out]] (line) disturbing the surface, a counter-thrust re-establishing the surface. All movements have their counter movement in the effect of a RL. It is not actually a geometrically perfect, [[crossed out]] and [[/crossed out]] excepting in the core of the neo-plasticists in which a vertical has a horizontal as its counter-movement (Mondrian) In all other forms of plastic expression the complications ensuring remedial approximately the same means but expressed as the situation demands ((something to be tempered not formalized always.)) Drawing is the proportionate use of the compositional elements that produce the effects [[left margin]] x x [[/left margin]]