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'Artists should not try to paint nature and the way it looks. He thought the qualities of line, colour and form were more important than trying to represent what we see.
This was the foundation of FORMALISM and ABSTRACTION.
Artists at this time used this method of painting to provoke an 'aesthetic reaction''. - Written next to the painting in York Art Gallery.
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