are too good. We can’t criticize them. Besides, we want pretty girls
and something we can ‘recognize’.”

There seems to be a lot of truth in the old tag, “You don’t judge
a work of art. The work of art judges you.”

Caricatures next. A bit of a shock to see the venerable Leonardo,
who did the beautiful head of Christ, also drawing monstrosities.

Do people want art with their meals? Does it stir up the bile
too much? All the more reason for continuing these shows. They are
accomplishing a real work in provoking art discussion into the open.

“Manifesto”

Whereas: the conceptional plastic
Is found to be drastically drastic;
And the phases conceptual

Are far too perpetual
For artists who shun the monastic;

Whereas: the surrealist tradition

Is really, sir, real in perdition,
And wuereas: the field
That the past has revealed

Is a rather reactive condition;

Whereas: there is little remaining
That one can depend on retaining
Against the incursion
Of rapt introversion
Which artists insist is too straining;

Whereas: too long the sensation
Of art has emerged with starvation
And artists are finding
That art is a grinding
And emptily fed situation....

We most humbly demand that our pal at
The head of affairs, take his mallet

And sponsor a movement

Of inward improvement
Called, “Back to the roov—with a palate.”