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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

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Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

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A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

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