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Why abstract painting feels beyond reach

Every time I try to paint like Rothko I just make muddy rectangles and I wonder if abstract expressionism requires some kind of spiritual development I do not have

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The mystification of abstract art as requiring special consciousness creates false barriers to artistic exploration.

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