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Abstraction vs. Figuration 

“Form, colour, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which – or practically all, as has been attempted logically, with unpainted canvases – can be dispensed with. What matters always is the revelation contained in the act. It is to be taken for granted that in the final effect, the image, whatever be or be not in it, will be a tension.”

— Harold Rosenberg, The American Action Painters

What tensions are you feeling in this work?

 

Source: Harrison and Wood, Art in Theory, 1900-1990.

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Sculpture Court: Marjorie Petty Harper Gallery»

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