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Exploring the Infinite: Frank Holliday's Abstraction in Color and Body

Abstraction is a way to explore the infinite possibilities of expression of both colors and the body beyond any existing linguistic codes. For Frank Holliday, painting becomes a vector to create epic metaphors of human existence, before morphing into language and rational formulation.

Bursting with vibrant colors and animated by contrasts, Holliday’s paintings fully embrace the idea of élan vital explored by Henri Bergson, wherein the vital force—a principle of creativity immanent in all organisms—is considered …