Dore Ashton Quotes
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It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
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Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.
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art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
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