“[These are] not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.”

— Clyfford Still

Clyfford Still (ca. 1950) as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 138: About his own work
1950s

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American artist 1904–1980

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