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Nela Arias-Mission (born 1925) is a Cuban artist known for her paintings in the Abstract Expressionist style.

Biography
Arias-Mission was born in Havana, Cuba.

She studied at Traphagens and Parsons in New York.

She studied at the Hans Hofmann School in New York

Art
Her art is very much a product of the Hans Hofmann school of painting.

Quotes
"I refuse to analyze my painting. I cannot paint if I think. I cannot preconceive a painting. I cannot paint. I only know by intensities. Passion is the source of understanding. I absorbe the world around me like a sponge--light, passions, personalities, smells. Before I can paint, I must empty myself totally, not thinking or imagining so that I can be used as an instrument, a channel. The purpose of my work is love."