Vladimir Kolar: How would you express your need for the abandonment of form?
Edo Murtić: Liberation from form is a kind of burden that leads to the clarity of visual thinking. I would like to underscore one thing – abstract art is not the negation of form, it has existed as art as far back as Altamira. Painters have always sought, though, musicality in the absence of form. This is the immediate relation of senses and values of colour and space. Put more exactly, abstract painting (this is not an inadequate concept) negates the means via which we arrive at contents. I would rather replace the word abstract by non-figurative, objectless.(…) As I said earlier, the abandonment of the figurative is the result of a desire for the mastery of the unknown. We have no need for the realization of the object, for we create the object.
Vladimir Kolar
Journalist