Addis, Ethiopia by KV, part 2.
Artist statement
"The painters to whom the term “Abstract Expressionist” was applied, in 1946, by The New Yorker art critic Robert Coates, did not represent a movement or a school. They ranged in style and attitude from Willem de Kooning, whose work was rarely altogether abstract, to Barnett Newman, who was never an expressionist. What drew them together was a common experience, an aesthetic breakthrough in middle life that led to the forging of a radical new style.”- Calvin Tomkins
from "Off The Wall, A Portrait Of Robert Rauschenberg" (New York: Picador, 2005), pg. 32.†