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His entire career as an artist Alfons Schilling has been inspired by one subject: exploding the pictorial surface using motion, space, and time. At the beginning of the 1960s the artist developed an extremely gestural, informal style of painting. His expressive abstractions, with their expansive and transgressive dynamism and painted on large-scale canvases and sheets of paper, exploded the pictorial surfaces. Schilling announced his claim to a new, ecstatic way of painting – it was, he said “all-encompassing painting”. At the end of 1961 Schilling developed his "Spin Paintings". The artist built motors enabling him that allowed him to paint on a picture surface that was rotating on the wall, or, rather, to pour or throw pigment at it. The pictures can be viewed either at rest or rotating. When for example, the picture rotates rapidly, it is almost impossible for the viewer to perceive the movement; when it turns more slowly, the eye sees the colours of the helically interlocked forms.