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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

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About George Benjamin Luks

George Benjamin Luks

George Benjamin Luks

George Benjamin Luks (August 13, 1867 - October 29, 1933), was an American portrait and genre painter. He was a member of The Eight, which later expanded to the Ashcan School, a group of painters so named because their depictions of urban realities were deemed vulgar by many critics.

Luks, a great admirer of Franz Hals, made many paintings of working class subjects and scenes of the urban street. He also worked as an illustrator and cartoonist. Two of his best-known works are The Spielers and The Wrestlers. His death in 1933 resulted from injuries in a barroom fight.

His students included Norman Raeben and John Alan Maxwell.

In World War II the United States liberty ship SS George Luks was named in his honor.

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