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is a fictive model because it makes visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. (Gerhard Richter)

is a term applicable to all paining because while some paintings make use of representation, they are first and foremost only paint.

All paintings are abstract. Some abstract paintings also have pictorial representation or narrative content, but in essence they are first and foremost abstract because we have only paint. (Robert Bissett)

is abstract. It confronts you. It consists of pictures that don't have any beginning or any end.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone, but it is a kind of incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

A painting or sculpture not modeled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone. . . but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses. (Hans Jean Arp)

is exactly what it purports to be, whether it be paint splatters or stripes, while a representational painting has to give the illusion of the paint being air, or flesh, or flowers. . . Therefore abstract paintings are rather concrete while representational paintings are rather abstract.

An abstract painting is exactly what it purports to be, whether it be paint splatters or stripes, while a representational painting has to give the illusion of the paint being air, or flesh, or flowers. . . therefore abstract paintings are rather concrete while representational paintings are rather abstract. (David Leffel)

is nothing but sensation. It is 'paths that go for a walk' in their surroundings.

Like all painting, abstract painting is sensation, nothing but sensation. In Mondrian the room accedes to the being of sensation by dividing the infinite empty plane by colored sections that, in turn, give it an infinite openness.24 In Kandinsky, houses are sources of abstraction that consist less in geometrical figures than in dynamic trajectories and errant lines, 'paths that go for a walk' in the surroundings. (Deleuze and Guattari 'precepts, affects, concepts : 476)

is distinguished from nonobjective painting in the same way that music is distinguished from mathematics.

The difference between nonobjective and abstract painting may be suggested by the difference between mathematics and music.

is the adoption of styles as subjects. The artist strives to represent the manner in which he would execute his pictures if by chance he were to paint any.

non-representational painting adopts 'styles' as 'subjects' it claims to give a concre representation of the formal conditions of all painting. paradoxically the result is that non-representaional painting does not, as it thinks, create works which are as real as if not more real than the objects of the physical world, but rather realistic imitations of non-existent models. It is a school of academic painting in which each artist strives to represent the manner in which he would execute his pictures if by chance he were to paint any (levi-strauss 1962 : 29-30n)

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abstract painting