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“...if you know exactly what you are going to do [paint], what is the sense of doing it?
Since you know it before you start, then it has no value [as art] better

to do something else...” Pablo Picasso

The argument for abstract begins (and probably ends) with Picasso - Although he also said; “Abstract Art does
not exist ...everything comes from something.” Just to contradict himself from the previous statements made
earlier in his long life. But, he did have a point. Mondrian insisted that to approach creation with
a spirituality (in art) that little use of reality is required. Why? - Because reality is opposed to the spiritual,
(he said). Mondrian was also convinced that Art was like Religion - Superhuman - And that art cultivates the
superhuman element in humanity. Therefore Art is an ends to a means of our species evolution.
He also stated that ‘spirit’ or ‘matter’ alone cannot deliver a vital or dynamic art - into being - And that it takes
the unity of the two to ensure its creation. This is a complex train of thought, one I personally find fascinating.
As it goes beyond the simple act of painting and delivers it to the hands of psychology - self analysis - before
during and after the creative process itself, which I’m pretty sure is a sort of masochistic brain torture.
Specifically for the artist who chooses to try and create an abstract work that can help evolve humanity.