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“I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.”....
“We were outcasts, roughly expressionist painters not acceptable to most dealers and collectors.(A reference to the TEN group of painters).” — Adolph Gottlieb.Adolph Gottlieb quotes
Adolph Gottlieb (1903 – 1974)
American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.
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Adolph Gottlieb
To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.2.
This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
3. It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought.
We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
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Adolph Gottlieb Quote: “Painting is self-discovery.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. (Rothko said this is the essence of academicism.)
6. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing.
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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid whi