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Erling Steen says, when he was a young painter he discovered that in some paintings everything fell into place like magic, while other paintings did not function at all. He thought that this was a part of the craft that he had to study and practice, and when he was good enough he could start painting something. It even had innocent craft like names like composition and balance. But over the years he learned that there was no permanent solution and that composition and balance is what it’s all about.
As abstract painting, at the time, was a dead end street, he looked to the 16th and 17th century Dutch, Spanish and French still-life painters who seemed to be walking the middle of the road between representational and abstract painting.
After turning my back on everything modern for a few years, he began to realize that there was an obvious relationship between the paintings he was doing and early modernism and especially cubism, and that he, like the cubists, was working with cubes, cylinders and cones etc. And as the early abstract painters he realized that “form” composition and balance was not something to be learned once and for all, but the main, forever changing and forever challenging subject of painting.
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