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Cloud Demons 1962 He has explained his own motives for painting as science and art, thus one might go beyond the despair
Oil on Canvas
68 X 84 in. follows: 'When one looks "into" a picture one should one feels. Toward today's ambiguity and the over­
Galerie Ander � on-Mayer enter a complete new world, convincing in its interior simplified certainties of the retreat into paint, polarities
logic if not according to external nature. A complex of our half-told myth.'
sustaining of a mood after the initial shock of its Martha Jackson, Hultberg's dealer in New York,
decorative unity has worn off. For some reason it is a writing in the catalogue of his retrospective exhibition
panoramic landscape, usually a mega polis that obsesses of 'white paintings' at her gallery last October described
me, that I wish to people. Subjective fragments tilted his art thus: 'His search for form begins with the old
into perspectives that follow the laws of the setting. masters, thence to Cezanne (kinesthetic movement).
Many of my pictures are perhaps only close-ups of the Mondrian (two-dimensional space), Franz Kline
city. If one really believes in this setting, it might be (impact painting), Hans Hofmann (geometric in com­
possible not only to inhabit once more the intoxicating bination with free-form abstraction) and continues
arena of art as intensified life. but also risking the traps with original contributions of his own. These include the
of grandiosity. To attempt new and more satisfying upright and tilted grid paintings, constructions, sus­
ambitions, for instance lessening the gap between pension as an art form, situation and environment
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