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I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
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"The collection", MOMA, online 1

 

Helen Frankenthaler

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My painting does not come from the easel. I hardly ever stretch my canvas before painting. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. This is akin to the method of the Indian sand painters of the West.

 

Jackson Pollock

 

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Adolph Gottlieb

 

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Theo van Doesburg

 

There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is the essential. You come to Nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

Everything is love. "HEAVEN ON EARTH" our idea of heaven has been formed by painting and nothing else. I love pure, bright colours, their intellectual clarity od expression conveying nothing but feeling. Painting - the inspired animation of the surface.

 

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