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Asger Jorn (1914-1973) was a Danish painter known for his contributions to abstract expressionism and Dadaism. His work blends various styles, including surrealism and minimalism, and was deeply influenced by his philosophical and literary interests throughout his artistic career.

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“We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.”

Art Talking Areas Relation Abstract Not Talking Cognition Abstract Art

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“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”

Men Art Reality Names Speak Materials Communication Aim

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“We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.”

Art Joy Illusion Aspect Bases Contemporary Disillusioned Contemporary Art

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“We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.”

Art Form Defined Fascinating Aesthetic Renewal Outrageous Explosives

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“Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.”

People Feels Trying Art Today Enemy Saws Standards Sitting Productions Branches Tragic Combat Best Art

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“It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

May Art Said Eye Interest Lines Style Folks Myth Staring Features Mask Dynamics Nordic Folk Art

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“We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.”

Art Past Views Generations Tradition Fixed Past Generations

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“My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.”

Wells Art Artist Literature Lines Known Development Tradition Defined Hills Fascinating Consistently Well Known Curves Twists Nordic

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“The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.”

Art Enough Spirituality Art Is Consequence Infinite Foundation Faults Depth Works Of Art Great Work Aesthetics Banality

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“If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.”

Ifs Art Important Process Difficult Liberation Colour Transition Canvas Distinguished Spontaneity Often Is Trough Unfree

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“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.”

Way Art Able Together Grows Difficult Break Better Ways Together Again

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About the Author

Born: March 3, 1914
Died: May 1, 1973
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 38

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