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of them do paint from photographs, projected on their canvases, slickly, monotonously, impersonally.

[[strikethrough]] Primarily [[/strikethrough]] At this point I would talk about the work of some painters who do, from my point of view, try to re-interpret the human figure and human content in terms of to-day. I can think of a number of such artists: Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Paul Georges, Alice Neel, Lennart Anderson, Don Perlis and others.  They paint human life more glaringly, more naked, than was done before they appeared on the scene. I sympathize with that because everything in life to-day is more open, more naked, if you please. In literature and cinema similar changes have taken place. Many of the artists paint under fluorescent light (the word fluorescent was not even in my spelling book) I and my friends have always painted in north-light studios, depended upon daylight, light and shadow, and the nuances produced by such conditions.

But to return to the artists I've mentioned. I may have lumped them together too carelessly. Unlike the so called radical [[strikethrough]] artists [[/strikethrough]] realists, they do not all paint in the same manner. Each one [[strikethrough]] paints [[/strikethrough]] is a person unto himself. I do question the size of some of their canvases (*over).  Why does Alfred Leslie paint the tycoon so many times bigger than life?  Even in normal size he would look ferocious enough.  Did he have

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