The center of this painting has the colors of coffee, caramel and cream exploding outward, pushing a band of blue out into infinity. The brown, caramel and cream colors represent a delectable latte and the blue color represents the depression and funk we all feel early in the morning before we've had our daily dose of java.
If this painting were hanging at your breakfast table and you were to glance at it while sipping your morning coffee, then your daily ritual would be enhanced, the effect of the coffee magnified. This is exactly what abstract expressionism is supposed to do: increase a certain emotion or sensation which in turn puts you closer in touch with the inner workings of your brain. And all of this occurs without subjecting yourself to the ongoing expense and inconvience of seeing a shrink on a weekly basis. In fact if more people owned abstract expressionist paintings the profession of pyschiatry would fade away.
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