Re: “His concerns and interests are all extremely contemporary, yet he chose to use a painting technique that was nearly 200 years old. We kept asking him why.”

[joseph berg]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, William Conger <w-con...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Epitomize?  Why just history of painting?  Which history of painting?  One
> could
> say that anything a human does epitomizes the history of humankind.
> The Butler
> statement is one that at first seems good and then it dissolves
> into vapor when
> examined closely.
> wc
>


 -  Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious
truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never
abandoned.

William Butler Yeats