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An aesthetic (cyclical) theory of history in which colors and lines alternate in emphasis depending on a medium's stage in material history. Begins with lines of colors on white surfaces (paintings) in the Romantic era to lines of single colors on black surfaces (neon) in the modern (industrial) era, to black lines created by contrapositive primary colors (pop realism) in the postmodern era to white lines on pastel colors (New Wave) in late postmodernism to white lines created by recursive (self-referencing) colors in hypermodernism.
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