[...]... expertise, not of probing into the unconscious or subconscious of the creator, or by the invocation of such probing on the part of the spectator fascination and The a material satisfaction in solving more and more often takes or physical problem the place of the almost psychic merging of the medium which tended ment The use of such equipment on a regular artist basis, whether owned by the transform the abstract... regardless of his of this points to the fact that there certain is a kind of honesty about the work of the strongest young which artists is of a different quality from the aesthetic honesty of the past This evidences itself in many ways, two are particularly important there and is On the of which one hand, the exploitation of the total resources potentialities of the material with artist is working:... the illusionistic The monumental realism of and the Philip Pearlstein marked visual a kind of editing of the real world, rather than the creation of a new aes- thetic world, so characteristic of the art of the past Crucial in the whole development has been the expanding relationship between photography and seeing This perhaps the is generation first obvious the paintings in paintings, of artists which... life deep concern with the brute fact of death The unexpected deaths of a violent made a profound obviously young number The artists of and figures many impression on was the of these first public suicide of Marilyn Monroe, followed by the assassina- John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and tions of Bobby Kennedy expressed to These shattering events were a great variety of ways They seem in have emerged... different directions on the whole, a energies its in very completely ac- artists cept the events and the objects of the life which surrounds them, either uncritically or with a cer- Old ideas of tain impersonality and to them Reality, to them, selection which artists the objects than is have less the historically kind of made of and experiences which surround them the isolation of experiences which is... First of all, it has reestablished craftsmanship of a high order as a characteristic of a significant part of conart The impulsive and and expressions of the mature been have Elegance of rejected fit and is acts art of our times many young by finish intuitive artists one of the important sources of aesthetic pleasure for the spectator (and undoubtedly of satisfaction for the viewing many examples of artist)... which these same themes would have evoked an in earlier period We in see more and more works which overtones, associations (which are im- plicit and essential in all forms of art conceived primarily as expressive of the unique personality of the creator) are played down When they are suggested by the creations of the new brand of realists, they seem to be brought to the work by the spectator rather... vanished of these factors have led certain new art to dismiss not really useful certainly critics of the as anti-art, a term which it is these developments are All of because they are obviously not art, The people who make them are anything else they are seen artists, was it and museums, in galleries they are looked at as objects of contemplation, Indeed, the reaction of the public to not of use forms... new kind of content, not themselves to such qualities restrict the most severe work created irrational, the thing in in such a vein, the Are they not doing the seek many other aspects of our life result of conditions social and problems, of new materials and new intentions, of new kind of artist new consumers and is much in outlets, a evidence today many is cases the relevance which such the lence,... use and other equipment in its his off the production of his works of art If superb hours for universities are to satisfy the needs and desires of the young artists Collaboration and communication are ore very art costly in terms of the financial resources of most siderable success close associ- finan- is The materials, instruments, and equipment concern The prospect of working in utilizes the physi- . HENRY President of the University JACK W. PELTASON Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Urbano-Champaign ALLEN S. WELLER Dean of the College of Fine and Applied. forms of art conceived primarily as expressive of the unique personality of the creator) are played down. When they are suggested by the creations of the new brand of realists, they