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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 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Milton Avery: then & now.("Red Rock Falls")