IN SEARCH OF ART The 26th Annual Exhibition and
the reviews pointing to the
best work being done make it
painfully plain that the West Coast is closely in step with
the Painters Eleven of Toronto and Montreal's Non-Figurative
Art Association.

The fascination with medium

experimentation: the technical

prowess of placing two colours
together to make them breathe or scream, the numerous
pallet kuife manipulations producing seductive designs that
beckon you to come in and j0in the Tun... Doer today's art
only stand when it lures you into its den?

To where have the structuralists
fled? To where has the painter
with a preconceived ob jective
creation flown? Where have the picture makers gone? To
where has the clean, pure order, the supercilious splendor
of the MONA LISA Seeped, the quiescence of a Mondrian?

Will the gallery viewer always

be left wondering, as one bus-

iness man confessed after see-
ing the recent Painters Eleven show. "Perhaps I'm not quite
ready for this yet, only here and there did I feel any re-
sponse. But I keep feeling I am being kidded. I studied
for a long while three paintings by the same artist. Fach
consisted of a coating of grey-green putty on which a pattern
of parallel ridges had been created--I assume by use of a
pallet knife. Nidges are 1/8" to 3/8" apart and about the
thickness of heavy thread. Of course the texture is marvel-
COA,  (BUb Magi lyaa.