Ed Moses recently reacquainted with his three monochromes in a collector's home. "I'm a painter, inventive, activated. An abstract painting is not a reference; it's not a picture; it's a perception of the painting. It goes back to Barnett Newman's Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?" For Moses, his monochromatic paintings "are a conceptual ideal of an abstract painting, existing on a two-dimensional plane. They are not painterly paintings, not painted by hand. They are the physical evidence of an abstract painting as a physical phenomenon. They have no reference nor do they exist as a referent to anything other than how they visually exist." source: http://www.charlottejackson.com/artists/Ed_Moses.htm
