This is from Wassily Kandinsky's, Concerning the Spiritual in Art and support's my reasoning for using a technique similar to Pollock as a form of expression and the re-emergence of abstract expressionism. The support comes in the second paragraph.
It is impossible for us to live and feel,as did the ancient Greeks. In the same way those who strive tofollow the Greek methods in sculpture achieve only a similarityof form, the work remaining soulless for all time. Such imitationis mere aping. Externally the monkey completely resembles a human being; he will sit holding a book in front of his nose, and turn over the pages with a thoughtful aspect, but his actions have for him no real meaning.
There is, however, in art another kind of external similaritywhich is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is asimilarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritualatmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued butlater lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revivalof the external forms which served to express those innerfeelings in an earlier age.
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