No more official beauty. The public, unaided, will learn to see for itself and will be attracted naturally to those painters whom they find modern and vital.
(What Jules La Forgue said about the independent art movement at the end of the 19th century can be said even more forcefully at the beginning of the 21st. With the advent of the internet, artists and writers need not submit themselves or their work to the qualifying judgment of the traditional gatekeepers monitoring who and what is seen and heard. Like Santa Claus or Jesus, the Establishment exists only if you continue to believe it does, only if you want or need the condescending pat on the head it bestows and, of course, how desperately you value the coin of the realm by which it rewards the complicit and the co-opted, and with which it buys what's really on the market: your obedience.)
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