abstract art
Abstract art is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
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"A painter works to formulate with or in colors.. .My paintings follow the second option."
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🇺🇸Ellsworth Kelly
Art
abstract art
1923–2015
"In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. . In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting."
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🇺🇸Kenneth Noland
Art
abstract art
1924–2010
"I knew what a circle could do. Both eyes focus on it. It stamps itself out, like a dot. This, in turn, causes one's vision to spread, as in a mandala in Tantric art."
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🇩🇪Josef Albers
Education
abstract art
1888–1976
"A painter works to formulate with or in colors.. .My paintings follow the second option."
36 quotes
🇷🇺Naum Gabo
Politics
abstract art
1890–1977
"He couldn't look after himself properly. He was terrible thin, and seemed to live mostly on currants and vegetable stew, because he followed the Haye diet."
21 quotes
🇺🇸George Rickey
Literature
abstract art
1907–2002
"As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!"
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🇺🇸Ilya Bolotowsky
Philosophy
abstract art
1907–1981
"Abstract art.. searches for new ways to achieve harmony and equilibrium."
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🇫🇷Pierre Soulages
Art
abstract art
1919–2022
"I have always thought that he more limited the means, the stronger the expression. That may explain the choice of a small palette."
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🇺🇸Ilya Kabakov
Art
abstract art
1933–2023
"For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future."
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Notable Quotes
"THE ORIGIN OF ART: The discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect. THE CONTENT OF ART: Visual information of our reaction to life. THE MEASURE OF ART: The ratio of effort to effect. THE AIM OF ART: Revelation and evocation of vision."
— Josef Albers, b. 1888View →
"In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually."
— Josef Albers, b. 1888View →
"For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes."
— Josef Albers, b. 1888View →
"Value differences in painting always cut in; color differences always go side by side. Laterally. Color differences can illustrate three dimensional form, but using color in terms of hue belongs more properly to painting than modelling with dark and light does."
— Kenneth Noland, b. 1924View →
"I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and the white, the edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be."
— Ellsworth Kelly, b. 1923View →