[CLICK ON PICTURES TO ENLARGE]"...participation in the arts as the best kind of training for life...had nothing to do with "self-expression" and everything to do with the discovery of personal integrity, an integrity that came from dealing honestly with materials, and that could be translated into dealing honestly with one's fellow creature/creator."
"At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act - rather than as a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze, or 'express' an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event."
"The new American painting...was taking art back to its primitive origins in mystery and magic; the artist was becoming once again a shaman, a seer in the true sense of one who sees profoundly into the depths of human experience."
"At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act - rather than as a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze, or 'express' an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event."
"The new American painting...was taking art back to its primitive origins in mystery and magic; the artist was becoming once again a shaman, a seer in the true sense of one who sees profoundly into the depths of human experience."
[Calvin Tomkins]
