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Milton Avery: then & now.("Red Rock Falls")

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| May 01, 2004 | Panero, James | COPYRIGHT 2004 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In the new art we can trace two main currents; in one synthesis predominates, in the other analysis; the latter preponderates enormously. Indeed, this is the direction in which abstract art has tended to develop ever since the Renaissance.

--Julius Meier-Graefe, 1908

Why talk when you can paint?

--Milton Avery

My first acquaintance with the work of Milton Avery (1885-1965) was indirect. In Christmas 1982, a color-rich, half-abstract landscape of a mountain scene--a catalogue-cover reproduction of it anyway--landed on my parents' coffee table. At this point, the total understanding of my world encompassed 1) the five blocks around my ...

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