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Does this context:William Wegman has long and patiently drawn deep from the shallow end of the reservoir of silly ideas… studiedly deadpan, one-liner pencil drawings from the early 1970s, a suite of witty postcard drawings from the past few years and gaga videos. Taken together, the sum remained charged with Wegman’sunflappable flair for the distinctly Dada. (from a book)mean:William Wegman in a long time and with patience has moved from silly shallow ideas to deep ones... some of these silly projects include deadpan but one-liner pencil drawings from the early 1970s, witty postcard drawings from the past few years and gaga videos. On the whole, all of his artworks enjoy a tendency to be an artist like Dada.

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Wegman's art has, from the very beginning, been outrageously silly. Starting in the 1970's, with ridiculously simple pencil sketches, to funny postcard drawings and oddly humorous videos, in recent years, his work has always been sublimely ridiculous.

(Note: "Dada" means ridiculously themed art. There's no artist named Dada.)

CalifJim · Answer

red appleWilliam Wegman has long and patiently drawn deep from the shallow end of the reservoir of silly ideas. ~
William Wegman in a long time and with patience has moved from silly shallow ideas to deep ones.

Not exactly. My version:

For a long time, Wegman has patiently selected a great deal of subject matter for his works from a small and trivial subset of a vast number of possible silly ideas.

red applestudiedly deadpan, one-liner pencil drawings from the early 1970s, a suite of witty postcard drawings from the past few years and gaga videos. ~
some of these silly projects include deadpan but one-liner pencil drawings from the early 1970s, witty postcard drawings from the past few years and gaga videos.

Good. My version:

Some of his works include one-liner pencil drawings from the early 1970s which were purposely and consciously done in a deadpan style, a set of witty postcard drawings from the past few years, and gaga videos.

red appleTaken together, the sum remained charged with Wegman’s unflappable flair for the distinctly Dada. ~
On the whole, all of his artworks enjoy a tendency to be an artist like Dada.

My version:

On the whole his works continued to show fully his imperturbable genius in expressing himself in a style that clearly has the characteristics of the Dadaist movement.

CJ

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