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here. Sometimes you are familiar with names. They reach you out here, but you don't know that they're Negroes, say for instance. They are participating in all the schools of art and thought that are at range in our country today. This is as it should be. I don't think a Negro because he's a or his identity should be such that he has to be a "social protest painter" because he's a Negro and everything is happening to his people, and he's fighting for some kind of rights. I don't think this is necessary. I would like to see more painters, for instance, just personally, and being subjective about the whole thing, I would like to see other artists who are dealing at least and painting images that can be read a little more easily by people, by their fellow man. I pretty much accept the great range of art that exists in America. There are, within all of art, there are charlatans there are good and bad things, but I find something of value in most of it, something that I can learn from. I look at it all, I study it all. I get all the articles and I read ravenously all art news and what all artists are doing and think and thinking. I am interested in what Rauschenberg has to say and paint. I am interested in what Andy Woolhall[[Andy Warhol]] has to say and paint. I am interested in Jim Deane, all these guys. In my early days in New York, I was acquainted with most of the artists who had become sort of the old masters of the modern school. People like Robert Muldeware, Adolph

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