It is essential to bear in mind that the world of the mysti… - Antoni Tàpies

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It is essential to bear in mind that the world of the mystics, like that of modern physics, cannot always be 'explained' in normal words, but often 'shows' itself the better through visual images.. [from the accumulation of matter and of objects to the radicalism of a gesture, it is a matter of] painting the essential and nothing more (Tàpies is citing here Llull)

Antoni Tàpies

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Antoni Tàpies (13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish Catalan artist, born in Barcelona, who from 1947 on, started to paint in a surrealistic style. Through 'Arte Povare', under the influence of Eastern calligraphy among other things, he soon developed a spontaneous Abstract Expressionism with its own symbolic language.

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Native Name: Antoni Tàpies i Puig

Alternative Names: Antonio Tapies • O Tapies • Antonio Tapies Puig • Antoni Tapies • Antoni Tàpies Puig • Tapies • Antoni Tapies i Puig • Antoni Tapies Puig

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Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities. [quote from 1976]

The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

It is essential to bear in mind that the world of the mystics, like that of modern physics, cannot always be 'explained' in normal words, but often '… - Antoni Tàpies

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