"Modern conditions and trends of thought demand modern art for their expression."
--William Merritt Chase, 1920
It's an appealing idea that new modes of artistic expression come about not out of an individual artist's personal style, or because of a fashionable aesthetic at the time, but because they were necessary to demonstrate the ideas that they were used for. I hope, as an artist, that styles of visual art move forward as definitively as fields of science, and that they have the potential to advance the pursuit of truth and improve society as much as medicine or technology, in their own way.
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