... , and thus the flatness of the canvas plane was betrayed. With abstract expressionism, Steinberg said, one could "fly" into the swirls and splatters of paint, between the lines, into the airy planes of color and imagine soaring around the one line down the center of the piece or whatever. As Wolfe puts it mildly, "the Abstract Expressionists had been dealing in ... ...

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... was a main focus of mine when looking at the work and it is done with such detail that almost each hair is painted in, furthermore it is thick and yet airy which is an odd sensation that toys with your sense of vision. Having previously done small amounts of research in Neo-Platonism I understand that this painting is meant to not ... ...

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