abstract art

Henri Matisse

modern art

munchausen syndrome

Andy Warhol

Jackson Pollock

Joan Miro

Pablo Picasso

Wassily Kandinsky

Marc Chagall

modern painting

Tom Swifty

metafolklore

cubism

objectification

boobs

sexual objectification

representation

Rene Magritte

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is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. (Robert Brault)

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is a misnomer because what is often called abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. (Constantin Brancusi)

is a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

is a search for reality... not of realistic objects, but as a whole, undergirded by the absolute conviction in the painter that this is how it should be and no other way.

In the process of making a painting in an abstract way, the painter is in search of a reality. Not one of realistic objects, but of the complete end result. The painting is experienced as a whole, and must evoke in the painter the absolute conviction that this is how it should be and no other way. (Paul Burlin)

is a story told with shapes, color, edges, movement, and value just like when one is painting a beautiful scene. How do you know when an abstract work is done' When the story is told.

Abstract artist tell their stories with shapes, color, edges, movement, and value just like when one is painting a beautiful scene. The difference is, of course, there is no scene. The scene is within the artist. I often get asked, 'How do you know when you are done'' I am done when the story is told. (Gwen Fox)

is a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life and lay life bare. The farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes.

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life' Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes' Robert Musil

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. (Jackson Pollock)

is art which cannot be looked at without provoking thought.

You can't look at abstract art without thinking. (Patricia Cole-Ferullo)

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