. American painters of yesterday and today . <: THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRAilY ASTOU, LENOX AND TILOJEN FOUNDATIONS E L. C ° Cj pi:Ul/lC LIBllARY X ANDTLliL.^ i-UL-SOAT10N3 color or design in a picture they are consistently dis-appointing. If, indeed, these works have any mean-ings at all, they are entirely lost in a style of composi-tion at once too involved for the human understand-ing and too evidently egotistic and personal topermit of any permanent intellectual enjoymenteven if they were intelligible. To represent anynumber of exquisitely satisfying human figures somuddled together in ela
. American painters of yesterday and today . <: THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRAilY ASTOU, LENOX AND TILOJEN FOUNDATIONS E L. C ° Cj pi:Ul/lC LIBllARY X ANDTLliL.^ i-UL-SOAT10N3 color or design in a picture they are consistently dis-appointing. If, indeed, these works have any mean-ings at all, they are entirely lost in a style of composi-tion at once too involved for the human understand-ing and too evidently egotistic and personal topermit of any permanent intellectual enjoymenteven if they were intelligible. To represent anynumber of exquisitely satisfying human figures somuddled together in elaborate denial of the mostelementary requirements of grace, or so twisted andtortured in unnecessary and unnatural contortionsas to recall nothing if not mans animal ancestry, ishardly evidence of an impulse likely to add anythingof lasting importance to the art of today. I do notknow of a single recognized masterpiece in pictorialart that does not either express an idea or convey asuggestion of something other than the mere abilityof the artist. It is precisely these ideas and thesesuggestions that enliven with in
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