A Meeting of Minds - Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway

12 Douglas Portway  Abstract  1972 oil and mixed media on paper 50 by 64,5 cm private collection ‘For me, abstract art is not a break with art – it is merely a continuation of the best aspects of art in a condensed, concentrated form … The demands of art, of society, of the personal problems of identity with which we are faced are best dealt with in the most direct manner possible – abstraction is such a direct manner.’ The artist, quoted in Hodin, J.P. Douglas Portway: A Painter’s Life . Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press, 1981, p. 82.