the word ‘abstract’ comes from the light tower of the philosophers … one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on ‘Art’ … (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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