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No 402 Arthur Dove
“I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky…” Arthur Dove, an early American modernist, often considered the first American abstract painter, was born on August 2, 1880.
No 331 Frank Stella
“I don’t like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.” Frank Stella, who was born on May 12th 1936.
No 286 Alan Davie
“I don’t practice painting or drawing as an art, in the sense of artifice, of making an imitation of something. It’s something I do from an inner compulsion, that has to come out.” Alan Davie, artist and musician. This quote … Continue reading
No 285 Hans Hofmann
“Painters must speak through paint, not through words.” Hans Hofmann, German-born American abstract expressionist painter who was born March 21, 1880.
No 283 Josef Albers
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” Josef Albers, a German-born American artist and educator who was born on March 19, 1888.
No 257 Guido Molinari
“Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.” Guido Molinari, a Canadian abstract artist, who died February 21, 2004.
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