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To find a new
emotional and artistic security in color is the only viable antidote
to angst -- the only way the avant-garde painting becomes more than
an anxious object, uncertain of its identity, as Rosenberg argues.
Indeed, the immediate experience of the spirituality of color is the
most exalted way consciousness has of rising above unconscious
suffering and creative uncertainty. Abstract Expressionism which has
left the demiurge for the light is the consummate realization of
Kandinsky's esthetic vision of spiritual color. Consciousness that
pure color is the purest self-consciousness is the ultimate esthetic
truth. Donald Kuspit
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