Monday, July 28, 2014

Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman

Letter to Editor New York Times 1943

1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

2. This world of imagination is fancy free and violently opposed to common sense.

3. It is our function as artists to make the spectator see our way, not his way.

4. We favour the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal.