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Closing the book on painting.
Carlos,
I don't think the book on painting has been closed, it has only not been taken out of the library much in the last 80 years. There were a lot of painters at the turn of the century working with new idea of color and picture content, especially in France. Unfortunately painters like Monet, Manet, Freiseke and Renoir, to name a very small sample were superceded by the excesses of modernism and post-modernism. It was easier for painters to "express themselves" without effort, knowledge and training. This would be akin to an untrained dancer leaping on to a stage in a performance of Swan Lake to "express herself".
I do not believe in ancestor worship in painting, deepest appreciation, yes.
To think that every great has been done and explored leaves us merely to continually to reuse old ideas and risk being static and irrevelant instead of courageously exploring new ways to express the divine and beautiful.
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