ATDTDA (14) references p 386 - not quite _that_ straightforward of a page

[David Morris]

inflect

  • verb 1 Grammar change or be changed by inflection. 2 vary the
intonation or pitch of (the voice). 3 technical bend or deflect
inwards.

So uninflected walls would be flat, and in the case of the painters
below, they would be somewhat uniform counterpoints to the natural
forms of the orchards being painted.

On 7/27/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> high uninflected walls -
> http://www.johnsheridanart.com/poorceza.htm
> In the summer of 1870, it was decided that Cézanne would paint outdoors alongside Pissarro at Pontoise, and co-develop a motif. They chose to paint an orchard with the white and *uninflected walls* [asterisks mine] of various houses rising above and behind, as their composition