The artists represented in this exhibition
wish to restore tactility to painting, to redefine drawing as part of the pictorial and to go beyond Postmodernism to retrieve the fullness of painting as major
art, including its tactility, explicitly material surface and capacity for metaphor as well its purpose to
fulfil what Henri Bergson defined as its principle function: to be «life enhancing» in its vitality.
It is vitally important that the Contemporary
Art Society is able to display works that have come to us as generous gifts and bequests — both to encourage further gifts from our networks of supporters, which are crucial to the ongoing development of public collections in this country, as well as to fulfil the wish of philanthropists such as Dr. Lande that their private art collections are enjoyed by public audiences.&raq
Art Society is able to display works that have come to us as generous gifts and bequests — both to encourage further gifts from our networks of supporters, which are crucial to the ongoing development of public collections in this country, as well as to
fulfil the
wish of philanthropists such as Dr. Lande that their private
art collections are enjoyed by public audiences.&raq
art collections are enjoyed by public audiences.»