Excerpt from American Painting Today In the past five years during which such an incredible number of individual pictures and murals have had purely American subject matter, it has been possible to notice that what one painter has called the gulf between looking and see ing has been crossed by many. This is what creates a well warranted hopefulness. Incidentally, it is what has created the many accomplished works which must be credited to the American artist of this period. In the first enthusiasm of five years ago there ...
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Excerpt from American Painting Today In the past five years during which such an incredible number of individual pictures and murals have had purely American subject matter, it has been possible to notice that what one painter has called the gulf between looking and see ing has been crossed by many. This is what creates a well warranted hopefulness. Incidentally, it is what has created the many accomplished works which must be credited to the American artist of this period. In the first enthusiasm of five years ago there were many sociological paintings which indicated on the part of the artist more courage than equip ment. This is easily understandable because when artists were creating for their own exclusive satisfaction rather than for the purpose of communicating ideas to a large audience they undertook to solve problems that were within their grasp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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