Taken as a whole, the exhibition is a clean, a strong, and a varied one and
of vast
artistic, educational interest and
importance, and, if I mistake not, will have as a result, and despite the unquestionably skeptical and even hostile attitude towards the merits
of the new foreign movements, or an indisposition to accept them as being worthy
of the title
of art movements in general — the most marked effect upon the cause
of art in America, and upon the coming
production of American painters and sculptors, than anything that has occurred since the first exhibition
of the so - called Munich band
of young American painters in the old American art galleries in 1878, and
of the work
of Monet and his contemporaries and followers held here in 1883.
In dialogue, they touched on a number
of topics addressed within the book, including abstract painting's critical reception today, and Brooklyn's role in its recent
importance in contemporary
artistic production.