Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist avoids traditional proportions to shape the colours, which can by this means float free. The ornamented canvas enriches a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our inner self.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]